Them manipulate the data to prove your point. The study done out a
Tulane think tank wants you to believe that Charter schools are far superior to our conventional public institution.
HERE IS THE STORY
I was tempted to title this story "The Illusion of Smarts" but hell you probably already figured where I was on this piece. So many lies, not enough think tanks or propaganda mills( called media) to disseminate bullshit
Friday, October 17, 2014
THE MUSHROOM TREATMENT
Were just a pile of mushrooms , kept in the dark and fed bullshit to keep us happily at our appointed tasks.
Some say as many as 70 percent of us citizens have a very hard time believing the misdeeds of those in power. Even when the evidence is presented to them ( which is seldom the case) , with the exception of a few of us cynical types who don't believe one damn thing that comes out of politicians or corporate mouthpieces.
This PIECE spells out in detail some of the major crimes of the past 30 years or more depending on how far you want to go back.
Most of the mentioned events concern our actions in foreign lands to garner and control the natural resources of the world. making life extremely hard for common citizens. You can check our shenanigans in South America in the 80's , and then look at today. The difference WE , you and me are in the cross hairs , and they are determined to wring the last cent of profit out of us they can. What end game they have in mind I'm sure is the biggest fairy tale ever told.
It has to happen someday, and I hope I'm still around to see it. When the citizens wake up and understand they have been led down the road to poverty what will be their reaction? When they finally understand they will never be able to pay off their student loans,. on their minimum wage jobs. At about the same time they will realize they will probably never own a house, or have a family, or consider a retirement.
Ill let you look at history for yourself and see where you think it will end up. I think I know and I'm sad.
Some say as many as 70 percent of us citizens have a very hard time believing the misdeeds of those in power. Even when the evidence is presented to them ( which is seldom the case) , with the exception of a few of us cynical types who don't believe one damn thing that comes out of politicians or corporate mouthpieces.
This PIECE spells out in detail some of the major crimes of the past 30 years or more depending on how far you want to go back.
Most of the mentioned events concern our actions in foreign lands to garner and control the natural resources of the world. making life extremely hard for common citizens. You can check our shenanigans in South America in the 80's , and then look at today. The difference WE , you and me are in the cross hairs , and they are determined to wring the last cent of profit out of us they can. What end game they have in mind I'm sure is the biggest fairy tale ever told.
It has to happen someday, and I hope I'm still around to see it. When the citizens wake up and understand they have been led down the road to poverty what will be their reaction? When they finally understand they will never be able to pay off their student loans,. on their minimum wage jobs. At about the same time they will realize they will probably never own a house, or have a family, or consider a retirement.
Ill let you look at history for yourself and see where you think it will end up. I think I know and I'm sad.
FOURTY MILLION DOLLARS DOWN THE DRAIN
The Senate Intelligence Committee (? on the intelligence part) spent 40 million investigating responsibility for our beloved torture program. It did not include the president of his cabinet in the study. There overall finding "The CIA and the Justice Dept lied to them.
No shit Sherlock , what did you expect? They knew the team wasn't looking at the White House team so they could pretty much say whatever came to mind.
6000 pages in the study of which we will only get to see a redacted summary about 500 pages long.
We all know from other info that there were regular round table meeting in the White House with a selected team that actually discussed what torture to use on an individual basis, but none of this is exposed.
To sum it up , just 40 million bucks pissed down the drain , the most damned expensive white of late.
Here is the story HERE
Keep in mind just for clarity the 911 Committee report that was another waste of money to publish porn. (It was a fuck story as we know now)
No shit Sherlock , what did you expect? They knew the team wasn't looking at the White House team so they could pretty much say whatever came to mind.
6000 pages in the study of which we will only get to see a redacted summary about 500 pages long.
We all know from other info that there were regular round table meeting in the White House with a selected team that actually discussed what torture to use on an individual basis, but none of this is exposed.
To sum it up , just 40 million bucks pissed down the drain , the most damned expensive white of late.
Here is the story HERE
Keep in mind just for clarity the 911 Committee report that was another waste of money to publish porn. (It was a fuck story as we know now)
Thursday, October 16, 2014
THE ILLUSION OF LEADERSHIP
No matter where you look the leadership of many institutions is manned by folks who cannot tell the truth and seem to make up laws as they go From judges, to bankers, to presidents , to military leaders,to ceo's they all lead us into a catastrophic ending.
For years I have observed what appears to be big problems in military leadership. Captains and Exec's and Command Master Chief's have been relieved for mostly unstated causes. Some have been tied to harassment. Now there is a new survey of active duty sailors that says 90% of them say they do not trust their leaders. Something definitely is going on in the Navy particularly. More collisions at sea then I can remember. Many more technical blunders like building ships that cannot do the mission they were supposedly designed for, buying big ticket items that are not needed and not wanted. Attempting to attack pay and benefits of active and retired sailors as they think the demand for them will diminish as the Navy automates.
It's easy to pick on presidents, one at a time or as a group and many have done so in many ways. I will simply say we have not had a president that was for the people since at least 1980. Since Ronald Regan set us on the course of conservative economics the course has been followed by each party when they have the reins.
This slacking of the reins during the years after 1980 has allowed our bankers and ceo's get filthy rich, some with quasi legal methods and others flat committed felonies in the pursuit of personnel wealth at the expense of the working man.
So far I have targeted the big leaders but the truth of the matter is that the sickness flows down the ladder to those of who serve below. It would be easy to say it's because of the flawed leadership at the top that those below somehow don't want to do their jobs. One of the most glaring examples comes to mind in thinking about the attack of the towers, when it was announced by the EPA that the air quality around the towers was safe. Just about any fool could look at the clouds of crap flowing in the streets and know it was toxic , and it turned out to be very toxic killing many first responders from respiratory illness.
Agency heads, one after the other appear before Congressional committees and appear to have little knowledge of the agency they head. There is a possibility that they were playing stupid but when you look at the performance of their agencies you are lead to believe they don't have a clue.
This latest Ebola adventure is a perfect example of leadership failing to take command of a problem and we are finding out facts one would have assumed would be the natural flow of things. Finding out that the CDC has no legal authority over rules it puts in place was a shocker. We find that the Dallas hospital invented it's own rules that proved to be inadequate in the end. Being shown the protection provided by Doctors Without Borders vs what the Dallas hospital provided gave us a clear idea of who was screwed up, and that there were no enforceable rules in place. The second nurse from the Dallas hospital was out of town when she got a fever and called the CDC before catching a flight home, they said sure fly your ok to go. There own guidelines say that she should have been put into isolation immediately. Once again an agency poorly led with employees not up to par handling cases as this.
I have to throw in a dig against the Federal Reserves handling of the economy. After throwing trillions of dollars into saving the banks act surprised that it did not bring about a recovery. Meantime said banks and their Hedge fund buddies raped the American economy by running stocks and commodities up and down like a yoyo , along with the corporations themselves buying back their own stock instead of investing in the economy and it's people. This week QE was stopped and of course the market took it unkindly and plunged, and event long overdue.Now there is talk of more QE to stabilize the markets. It won't do a thing for the real economy but they will probably follow the same ole path.
Take a look a Europe, they are entering what some are calling a third round of recession when a stronger look will tell you that they never came out and that we really are in a different kind of depression. Different in that nobody calls it that, but when you look at the real numbers instead of the manufactured data we have been in a constant downturn world wide for a very long time. With the austerity binge going on world wide to think that somehow that would bring about a recovery was far from the truth and if they didn't know it would work you fall back on the leadership is not up to the task that it should be able to handle.
Everywhere you turn from government to business to educators all seem to be leading us down the wrong path. Conservative economic thinking has been a disaster demonstrated world wide since at least 1980. It looks like nobody ever looks at history for guidance they follow the little red ball of conservative thinking.
I could go on raving about this and that but I think you get my drift by now. We are in a depression and the powers that be have no intention of leading us out to prosperity. How anybody could think any of the fixes would work is beyond my grasp. My big problem is I can see no White Knight leading us out of darkness. With money controlling government what chance do we have?
It's sure as hell isn't putting a Congress controlled (both houses) by republicans. If you think things have not being going in the right direction just wait and see what a fully conservative congress will give us.
PREPARE TO DIVE you will need to run deep and quiet to come out the other side of this mess.
For years I have observed what appears to be big problems in military leadership. Captains and Exec's and Command Master Chief's have been relieved for mostly unstated causes. Some have been tied to harassment. Now there is a new survey of active duty sailors that says 90% of them say they do not trust their leaders. Something definitely is going on in the Navy particularly. More collisions at sea then I can remember. Many more technical blunders like building ships that cannot do the mission they were supposedly designed for, buying big ticket items that are not needed and not wanted. Attempting to attack pay and benefits of active and retired sailors as they think the demand for them will diminish as the Navy automates.
It's easy to pick on presidents, one at a time or as a group and many have done so in many ways. I will simply say we have not had a president that was for the people since at least 1980. Since Ronald Regan set us on the course of conservative economics the course has been followed by each party when they have the reins.
This slacking of the reins during the years after 1980 has allowed our bankers and ceo's get filthy rich, some with quasi legal methods and others flat committed felonies in the pursuit of personnel wealth at the expense of the working man.
So far I have targeted the big leaders but the truth of the matter is that the sickness flows down the ladder to those of who serve below. It would be easy to say it's because of the flawed leadership at the top that those below somehow don't want to do their jobs. One of the most glaring examples comes to mind in thinking about the attack of the towers, when it was announced by the EPA that the air quality around the towers was safe. Just about any fool could look at the clouds of crap flowing in the streets and know it was toxic , and it turned out to be very toxic killing many first responders from respiratory illness.
Agency heads, one after the other appear before Congressional committees and appear to have little knowledge of the agency they head. There is a possibility that they were playing stupid but when you look at the performance of their agencies you are lead to believe they don't have a clue.
This latest Ebola adventure is a perfect example of leadership failing to take command of a problem and we are finding out facts one would have assumed would be the natural flow of things. Finding out that the CDC has no legal authority over rules it puts in place was a shocker. We find that the Dallas hospital invented it's own rules that proved to be inadequate in the end. Being shown the protection provided by Doctors Without Borders vs what the Dallas hospital provided gave us a clear idea of who was screwed up, and that there were no enforceable rules in place. The second nurse from the Dallas hospital was out of town when she got a fever and called the CDC before catching a flight home, they said sure fly your ok to go. There own guidelines say that she should have been put into isolation immediately. Once again an agency poorly led with employees not up to par handling cases as this.
I have to throw in a dig against the Federal Reserves handling of the economy. After throwing trillions of dollars into saving the banks act surprised that it did not bring about a recovery. Meantime said banks and their Hedge fund buddies raped the American economy by running stocks and commodities up and down like a yoyo , along with the corporations themselves buying back their own stock instead of investing in the economy and it's people. This week QE was stopped and of course the market took it unkindly and plunged, and event long overdue.Now there is talk of more QE to stabilize the markets. It won't do a thing for the real economy but they will probably follow the same ole path.
Take a look a Europe, they are entering what some are calling a third round of recession when a stronger look will tell you that they never came out and that we really are in a different kind of depression. Different in that nobody calls it that, but when you look at the real numbers instead of the manufactured data we have been in a constant downturn world wide for a very long time. With the austerity binge going on world wide to think that somehow that would bring about a recovery was far from the truth and if they didn't know it would work you fall back on the leadership is not up to the task that it should be able to handle.
Everywhere you turn from government to business to educators all seem to be leading us down the wrong path. Conservative economic thinking has been a disaster demonstrated world wide since at least 1980. It looks like nobody ever looks at history for guidance they follow the little red ball of conservative thinking.
I could go on raving about this and that but I think you get my drift by now. We are in a depression and the powers that be have no intention of leading us out to prosperity. How anybody could think any of the fixes would work is beyond my grasp. My big problem is I can see no White Knight leading us out of darkness. With money controlling government what chance do we have?
It's sure as hell isn't putting a Congress controlled (both houses) by republicans. If you think things have not being going in the right direction just wait and see what a fully conservative congress will give us.
PREPARE TO DIVE you will need to run deep and quiet to come out the other side of this mess.
Thursday, September 11, 2014
WHAT IS NOT BEING SAID!
No ground troops to Iraq. Now we have to define troops. What the president really means is no fighting men on the ground. While even that is not the entire truth but the glaring fact left out of the discussion is that the Pentagon has called for a bunch of new contractors to go to Iraq instead of military troops.
No matter what you call the folks doing the fighting , dead is dead , so there will be Americans dying on the ground in Iraq as there will be more of in Afghanistan.
The cost of a military type is about $19000 /yr while a contractor can cost $150K to $250K . With no real numbers shown us and certainly no costs are we allowed to know but you can easily see contractors cost a lot of bucks. But we must be putting them in country without shoes, since we aren't going to have boots on the ground.
No matter what you call the folks doing the fighting , dead is dead , so there will be Americans dying on the ground in Iraq as there will be more of in Afghanistan.
The cost of a military type is about $19000 /yr while a contractor can cost $150K to $250K . With no real numbers shown us and certainly no costs are we allowed to know but you can easily see contractors cost a lot of bucks. But we must be putting them in country without shoes, since we aren't going to have boots on the ground.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
PIVOT TO ASIA ANOTHER NEOCON WET DREAM
The downplayed reason of the Pivot is to prepare for a war with China. Oh now there is a good idea.
To grease the way for this final confrontation we are poking sticks at the Russian bear by leading Ukraine into a confrontation with Russia as a way to get our anti missile defense closer to the Russian border. Brilliant thinking from the Neocons in thinking they can actually put up a system that gives you first strike capability. Insane shit at best. If the big red button was pushed and your guess on how many of their missiles would achieve launch , it would be too late to say oops. Every military decision the neocons have launched in the last 40 years has ended up a disaster.
If they are successful in this latest attempt of world domination it could very well be the end of earth .
To grease the way for this final confrontation we are poking sticks at the Russian bear by leading Ukraine into a confrontation with Russia as a way to get our anti missile defense closer to the Russian border. Brilliant thinking from the Neocons in thinking they can actually put up a system that gives you first strike capability. Insane shit at best. If the big red button was pushed and your guess on how many of their missiles would achieve launch , it would be too late to say oops. Every military decision the neocons have launched in the last 40 years has ended up a disaster.
If they are successful in this latest attempt of world domination it could very well be the end of earth .
DUMB AND DUMBER
School boards or Administrators are pretty well in a tie for being the dumbest folks on the planet. Damn near daily you see reports of misdeeds authorized by these Neanderthals against our kids we send to their care daily.
Today's offering takes the cake for stupid rules. This school board has forbidden the use of Chapstick on school grounds because it is an over the counter drug. Oh yes , it's a gateway drug to what I am not sure.
STORY IS HERE
Quite often you see stories on how overpaid/lazy/dumb/unqualified for their jobs from the mouths of (most of which) require nothing more than a political mouth spouting uneducated plans for their district that go way past stupid. These teacher that others like to complain about have to live with stupid rules like these on a daily basis trying to make the teachers so busy policing policies they had no say in formulating.
Administrators who like their jobs gladly enforce the stupid rules passed by these boards and then add their own brand of bullshit to the mix.
Dead brains are not limited to local folks , no the gang in Washington comes up with their own brand of stupid. The New Lunch program is a great example of unthinking done by our leaders. Any one who ever thought you can get kids to eat stuff they don't like as a steady diet must not have raised too many kids. Remember the video of the kid left sitting at the dinner table with a plate of peas in front of him he has to eat before he can leave. We all know who wins that one. If you really are worried about obesity how about regulating the fast food served by our nations thousands of joints where lots of these kids eat regularly. Instead we put in a program to control what they eat in school. How great a success was this , well daily you see school after school abandon the program for two reasons , the kids won't eat it and the dumpsters are fuller than ever.
From the days of zero tolerance till today, one program more stupid than the last has been pushed on our kids and teachers. Meantime media throws at the kids the untruth that you must go to college to succeed, while thousands of tech jobs go unfilled due to a lack of qualified people and college grads go without jobs or at best a job they did prepare for.
If a ships performance is subpar you relieve the Captain. We need to relieve a whole bunch at the top of the education system.
Today's offering takes the cake for stupid rules. This school board has forbidden the use of Chapstick on school grounds because it is an over the counter drug. Oh yes , it's a gateway drug to what I am not sure.
STORY IS HERE
Quite often you see stories on how overpaid/lazy/dumb/unqualified for their jobs from the mouths of (most of which) require nothing more than a political mouth spouting uneducated plans for their district that go way past stupid. These teacher that others like to complain about have to live with stupid rules like these on a daily basis trying to make the teachers so busy policing policies they had no say in formulating.
Administrators who like their jobs gladly enforce the stupid rules passed by these boards and then add their own brand of bullshit to the mix.
Dead brains are not limited to local folks , no the gang in Washington comes up with their own brand of stupid. The New Lunch program is a great example of unthinking done by our leaders. Any one who ever thought you can get kids to eat stuff they don't like as a steady diet must not have raised too many kids. Remember the video of the kid left sitting at the dinner table with a plate of peas in front of him he has to eat before he can leave. We all know who wins that one. If you really are worried about obesity how about regulating the fast food served by our nations thousands of joints where lots of these kids eat regularly. Instead we put in a program to control what they eat in school. How great a success was this , well daily you see school after school abandon the program for two reasons , the kids won't eat it and the dumpsters are fuller than ever.
From the days of zero tolerance till today, one program more stupid than the last has been pushed on our kids and teachers. Meantime media throws at the kids the untruth that you must go to college to succeed, while thousands of tech jobs go unfilled due to a lack of qualified people and college grads go without jobs or at best a job they did prepare for.
If a ships performance is subpar you relieve the Captain. We need to relieve a whole bunch at the top of the education system.
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