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Once we understand that last century's corporate fascists HITLER, STALIN, MAO, PINOCHET, FRANCO et al all worked for the same global banking 1%  OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS being FAR-RIGHT WING EXTREME WEALTH EXTREME POVERTY LIBERTARIAN MARXISTS---then we can follow what is today a much touted by our 5% global banking players----MAO'S GREAT LEAP FORWARD to see where US MOVING FORWARD is going.  Talking last week about saving our access to BOOKS-----seguing into GLOBAL GOOGLE'S DIGITAL LIBRARY leading a highly educated AMERICA to a COMMONER CORE RACE TO THE TOP for global 1%.

In US we are already seeing MAO's indoctrination when our national media and CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA keep using terms like EXCEPTIONALISM-----those people in our US global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE corporations academic writings are THE BEST.  The roll-out of KHAN ACADEMY as earliest online lessons occurred to great fanfare of KHAN as the exceptional teacher.  All of this is leading to MAO'S RED BOOK----where all our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE will be told to adhere and only read from the doctrines of global banking 1% PRETENDING to be pro-worker with MARXISM.

MAO'S REVOLUTION as today's UNITED NATIONS OUR REVOLUTION was always about the global banking 1% gaining extreme wealth and extreme power killing 99% of WE THE PEOPLE---our US 99% black, white, and brown citizens need to understand the POWER OF BOOKS in achieving and maintaining FREEDOM, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.


We can look at MAO's RED BOOK to see where US MOVING FORWARD will take us----and it starts with creating ORGANIZATIONS AND NGOs directed especially at YOUTH----and it follows by whipping those youth into civil unrest civil war all while PRETENDING it is for the youth's GOOD.

All this violence stems from those global banking OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS 5% ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT civil unrest freemason/Greeks.


Who, What, Why: What is the Little Red Book?
  • 26 November 2015   BBC
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell threw a copy of Mao's Little Red Book at George Osborne. What exactly is the tome all about, asks Jon Kelly.


"Let's quote from Mao" is not a remark that's commonly heard in the House of Commons, but McDonnell said he did so as a joke to draw attention to sales of British assets to the Chinese government. Picking it up, the chancellor replied mockingly that it was his shadow's "personal signed copy".


It's an icon of China and communism as well as a work of propaganda. More than a billion copies have been published, making the book, often wrapped in its distinctive vinyl cover, one of the most widely produced of all time. During China's "Cultural Revolution" it became virtually mandatory to own and carry one.

The Little Red Book - or, to give its full title, Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong - contains 267 aphorisms from the Communist Chinese leader, covering subjects such as class struggle, "correcting mistaken ideas" and the "mass line", a key tenet of Mao Zedong Thought. Included is Mao's famous remark that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun".



Originally produced in 1964 by the People's Liberation Army - an early version was titled 200 Quotations from Chairman Mao - it soon became a key feature of the leader's personality cult. The Ministry of Culture aimed to distribute a copy to every Chinese citizen and hundreds of new printing houses were built in order to achieve this. Mao himself reportedly liked its resemblance to books of quotations by philosophers such as Confucius.


During the Cultural Revolution, in which millions were persecuted or killed, owning it "became a way of surviving", says Daniel Leese, professor of modern Chinese history and politics at the University of Freiburg. Paramilitary "Red Guards" mobilised by Mao to purify the Communist Party would check whether those suspected of bourgeois tendencies were carrying it or whether they could quote from it.


As the regime attempted to export its ideas as a form of "soft power", millions of copies were published in translation and sold abroad. It was taken up by Western radicals such as the Black Panthers and passed around as a samizdat text in the Warsaw Pact nations, where the USSR's split from China ensured it was banned.



Mao's successor Deng Xiaoping disliked the book and tried to suppress it, says Leese, but this only served as a kind of "viral marketing". While its appeal today may be nostalgic or even kitsch, McDonnell's stunt may have temporarily boosted its British sales - since his speech, the Sun reported, left-wing bookshops have sold out of it.

Quotations from the Red Book
  • "Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
  • "All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful."
  • "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery... A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another."
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 'Arthur Prescott, a middle-age bibliophile who teaches literature at the University of Barchester in a small English town'.

We return to our global banking 1% freemason LITERARY STAR and that novel THE LOST BOOK OF THE HOLY GRAIL.  As we stated before the goal of this novel for global banking 1% was creating a fiction where HIGHLY EDUCATED BIBLIOPHILES loving their BOOKS meet with hyper neo-liberal global GOOGLE digitizing starting with the controversy between and allowing an ending that MARRIES THESE TWO OPPONENTS.

We shared that the HOLY GRAIL is not religious---it is MYTH-MAKING used for several centuries by global banking 1% KINGS AND QUEENS as a carrot playing on individual's PASSIONS ----what would make them strive for a lifetime as a goal.  Now, back in medieval Europe during the discovery and exploration of America's the EARTH WAS FLAT and those ships' captains did think they might fall off the edge of the horizon.  What inspired the risk of death?  As we stated tales of CITY OF GOD----or modern days' CA and ALASKA GOLD RUSH-----or FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH ---or today's GMO HUMAN telling us we can live forever with no disease or illness.

This novel plays on our 99% of citizens seeing ENTERING GOD'S KINGDOM and the passion of wisdom as that HOLY GRAIL.  If ARTHUR PRESCOTT, the character endeared to readers as being that seeker of FAITH, SPIRIT, SOUL through wisdom of BOOKS says GLOBAL GOOGLE DIGITIZED LIBRARY is good---well, then we should believe this as well.


This is the same societal FADS being pushed by MAO in GREAT LEAP FORWARD----the idea that shedding all that was culturally normal to create that singular source of doctrine---GLOBAL GOOGLE COMMONER CORE.



Review: A book lover searches for the Holy GrailBy Mary Cornatzer

March 03, 2017 09:50 AM
Updated March 03, 2017 10:50 AM



Charlie Lovett collects books, writes books and even got to curate a collection of Alice in Wonderland memorabilia at the New York Public Library for two years, according to his book jacket. He divides his time between England and Winston-Salem, where he used to run an antiquarian bookstore. All in all it sounds like a very pleasant life.



And his new book – his fourth – is a very pleasant book. It offers mystery, a tad of fantasy, a smattering of religious history and romance as it tells the story of Arthur Prescott, a middle-age bibliophile who teaches literature at the University of Barchester in a small English town.



More important for this story, Arthur is a believer in the legend of King Arthur and of the Holy Grail – the chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper. Because of something his grandfather told him when he was a boy and from his own readings, Arthur thinks the Grail is in Barchester.



Before too long a pretty young American named Bethany is introduced. She’s there to digitize the cathedral’s centuries-old books – much to Arthur’s chagrin. Books need to be touched, he says, not read online. To which Bethany argues that books need to be shared and that her work will introduce more people to the books Arthur loves. It’s obvious from the start where this romance will end up, though there will be the usual hiccups along the way.

The plot centers around the university’s financial struggles (will they have to sell off Arthur’s beloved books?) and Arthur’s efforts – which have been half-hearted until now – to find the Grail. In the end, there is a code to crack and a secret chamber to find before the mystery can be solved, and if it all sounds like a Dan Brown book or a “National Treasure” movie, don’t be put off. Lovett tells a good story, his dialogue is witty and his characters are engaging.



And then there’s the history. Lovett breaks up the story of Arthur and his quest with short chapters that purport to tell the backstory of the Grail, touching on the early days of Christianity in England, the Norman invasion, Reformation and the English Civil War.


It’s been a few years since I dusted off my history books. My only acquaintance with King Arthur is through T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King,” and my knowledge of Christianity’s history is even more limited. So I have no idea how correct any of Lovett’s history is, but in the author’s note, he gives a good accounting of where he got what bits, which historical characters are real and which are invented.


Book lovers will also appreciate passages like this, where he describes the joy of paperbacks: “They accumulated brown blotches of foxing on their covers and pages and they absorbed a subtle odor that spoke of pipes and damp and long walks in the countryside. Arthur opened to his bookmark, pressed his nose into the book, and inhaled deeply. Yes, he thought, as he settled into his chair and began to read, this was going to be a wonderful afternoon.”



So make yourself a cup of proper English tea, open “The Lost Book of the Grail” and escape your busy life for an afternoon.
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We are not reviewing this book---nor are we picking on MR LOVETT----all our US cultural arts---theater, movies, TV, music, and literature has always allowed only global banking 1% freemason players become STARS-----each book sells global banking 1% goals---as CITIZENS our goal is to educate as to what they are hiding.

This GRAIL story directed at our WISDOM and ENTERING GOD'S KINGDOM citizens deliberately has that RELIGIOUS LEADER embracing our global GOOGLE DIGITIZER----and deliberately creates a story where the ACADEMIC BIBLIOPHILE is made unable to advance his goals without that EVER-CORRECT GLOBAL GOOGLE digitizer.  So, we are supposed to place all our faith in what global GOOGLE and its ONE WORLD ONE DIGITAL LIBRARY for only the global 1%.  The plots comes filled with SAINTS and HOLY SITES ---the author readily admits is HISTORICAL FICTION ---but the INADEQUATE BIBLIOPHILE ACADEMIC only finds his faith when global GOOGLE leads each step to the discovery of HIS HOLY GRAIL-----now he believes in GOD'S KINGDOM.

GOOD STORY----ALL GLOBAL BANKING 1% PROPAGANDA SELLING THE IDEA THAT ACADEMICS LOVE GLOBAL GOOGLE---BIBLIOPHILES LOVE GLOBAL GOOGLE---EVEN OUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS LOVE THE GOALS OF GLOBAL GOOGLE DIGITIZED LIBRARY.



The REALITY-----99% of academics----99% of bibliophiles----99% of REAL religious citizens DO NOT WANT GLOBAL GOOGLE'S DIGITIZED LIBRARY for only the global 1%.

'The Lost Book Of The Grail' Is The One Book Every Bibliophile Needs To Read This Winter


BySadie Trombetta

Mar 2 2017


Do you prefer pen and paper to keyboards and computers, ancient history to modern technology, and physical books to anything in the digital world? Then you will feel right at home reading The Lost Book of the Grail, the one book every bibliophile needs to read this winter.



In his newest literary mystery, bestselling author and fellow book-lover Charlie Lovett takes readers across the pond on a mysterious, hilarious, and heartwarming search for the one mystical item the world has been dying to find for over 2,000 years: the Holy Grail. Set in the fictional English cathedral city of Barchester, The Lost Book of the Grail follows Arthur Prescott, a middle-aged professor who prefers antique books and ancient manuscripts to people. That is, until the young, tech-savvy American Bethany Davis comes to Barchester Cathedral to digitize its collection, and turns the old-fashioned scholar's life upside down in the process. Soon, Arthur finds himself torn between resisting her modern technology (and her charm), or giving in to the times and letting his own guard down in the process.



But as soon as Arthur learns Bethany shares his passion for Arthurian legend and finding the location of the Holy Grail, he is a goner, and the unlikely duo team up for an even more unlikely mission: to locate the the lost Book of Ewolda, an ancient manuscript about the cathedral's founder that just might hold the key to finding the long-lost Holy Grail.



A fun, literary adventure in the spirit of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade or The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Book of the Grail is a wildly entertaining story bibliophiles everywhere will love. Here are five reasons why:

There are a lot of reasons to fall for Charlie Lovett's clever and bookish novel, but the literary mystery at its center will draw bibliophiles in on page one and won't let them go until its resolution. As the title would imply, The Lost Book of the Grail is about more than just a missing magical cup, but a mysterious lost manuscript that may hold the key to unlocking the truth behind the greatest legends of King Arthur and his knights.


Though the majority of the story takes place in modern times, Lovett utilizes century-old flashbacks to lay breadcrumbs for his readers to follow all the way up to the present day. Expertly paced, The Lost Book of the Grail unravels slowly, pleasurably, and with just enough suspense to keep readers turning the pages in search for the missing book, and more importantly, the missing Holy Grail.



2The characters are fellow bibliophiles.Like you, the characters in The Lost Book of the Grail, both major and minor, are serious book-lovers. Not only does the old-fashioned yet lovable Arthur work as an English professor at the University, he spends his free time pouring over ancient texts in the Cathedral, collecting rare editions of his favorite P.G. Wodehouse books, and co-running the BB's: the Barchester Bibliophiles, a book club that involves wine, old books, and reading out loud.



Aside from Arthur, the novel's quirky and tech-obsessed American heroine, Bethany, also has a passion for books, both printed and not. She works as a librarian whose job it is to digitize ancient texts and make them available to the whole world, and she celebrates the fact that books should be a right everyone has access to. Alongside Arthur and the other members of the BB's, this fiction crew in Barchester is perhaps the biggest group of bibliophiles, imagined or otherwise. You'll love them.

If you're going to write a book about, well, books, then it would only make sense to have a few literary references peppered throughout, right? Throughout his novel, Charlie Lovett not only expertly weaves in literary allusions to the legends of King Arthur and the biblical text about the Holy Grail, but he also drops delicious bookish references to everything from P.G. Wodehouse to Jane Austen to J.K. Rowling.


From its first page to its last, The Lost Book of the Grail is overflowing with literary references real book nerds will truly delight in.


4It blends together several genres.At it's core, The Lost Book Grail is a whimsical literary mystery, but the novel is also beautifully layered with elements of humor, romance, adventure, history, and more.



Lovett's unique work combines literary and historical research with classic elements of cozy mysteries, classic love stories, and exciting adventure tales to create a true genre-blending masterpiece. At once funny, heartwarming, and suspenseful, The Lost Book of the Grail has something for every kind of reader, and every kind of book-lover, alike.


The Lost Book of the Grail is truly a book-lover's book, a bibliophile's dream in novel form. It celebrates literature throughout time, from the first biblical texts to the oldest Arthurian legends to the modern English humorists and beyond. It honors books in their truest form — printed — while acknowledging the merits of literature's new digital possibilities. It praises authors, new and old, and glorifies the unknowable power books and reading has on all of us.


But, most of all, The Lost Book of the Grail celebrates readers of every kind, from the Arthurs of the world, who prefer reading ancient manuscripts with latex gloves to the Bethanys, who love their e-readers and aren't afraid to show it.


A novel true bibliophiles will be enchanted by, The Lost Book of the Grail deserves a spot on every book-lover's shelf.


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READ A BOOK! The mantra of these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA while they defunded, dismantled, created huge dysfunction in our public K-university system.  BALTIMORE READS was that propaganda as our public schools were not even allocated school texts----and if they did they were MYTH-MAKING school texts -----there are goals to SMART PHONE technologies besides advancing SMART CITIES DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE and planetary mining colonization-----that is eliminating our US 99% connections with vocabulary-----spellings-----creating the smallest use of words in describing----tied to TEXTING and social media posting.  When we started posting on social media we were told by 5% global banking players we were only supposed to post a MEME.  None of this BROAD DISCUSSION OF PUBLIC POLICY.

This is a GLOBAL BANKING 1% FAD----the idea that US citizens do not want to read books.  Indeed, we do not see people coming to our LIBRARIES-----what LOVETT in HOLY GRAIL novel did was to highlight just this----no one but a few ACADEMICS and RELIGIOUS people even want to look at books in these global libraries.  We are a product of US public education K-UNIVERSITY and if we did not have the ability to access all those MEDIEVAL BOOKS---AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT BOOKS----REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA BOOKS----CIVIL RIGHTS REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE BOOKS and all that academic research and data over centuries----we would not be able to discuss today REAL INFORMATION in public policy.  Our 5% to the 1% GREEK players went to college----working for their own gains---that is not what 99% of our college grads do over thousands of years.  ACADEMICS want to SHARE KNOWLEDGE.  5% and that global 1% DO NOT WANT TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE.


HUFFINGTON POST----raging global banking 1% media outlet would not give REAL polling data.


BOOKS
10/07/2013 08:10 am ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
POLL: 28 Percent Of Americans Have Not Read A Book In The Past Year



According to a HuffPost/YouGov poll asking 1,000 U.S. adults about their reading habits, 41 percent of respondents had not read a fiction book in the past year; 42 percent had not read a nonfiction book.


There’s overlap between the groups — 28 percent of respondents did not read a book at all in the past year, while 25 percent read between one and five books, 15 percent read between six and ten books, 20 percent read between 11 and 50, and eight percent read more than 50.



Not all of the results are disheartening, especially for bookstore devotees, who should be encouraged by the fact that 50 percent of respondents spent time in the past week reading a physical book, while only 19 percent spent time reading an e-book. The complete results are below:


The benefits of reading are paramount, and we don’t just mean to those still in school. Mental stimulation can potentially slow Alzheimer’s, and can actually enhance your memory; Expanding your vocabulary, thereby making you an articulate speaker, is an asset at any job; Reading even helps you empathize with other people, and other cultures.



So what are you waiting for? Grab a book — fiction or non — and get to work! Or, you know, play.
Stumped on where to begin? We’ve got plenty of recommendations. For starters, here are 30 books we think you should read before you’re 30, and 20 books we think every New Yorker (or lover of New York City) should read.
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In our MOVING FORWARD to take our US society to THIS-------where we worship SHIPS OF FOOLS------knowing only what these global banking 1% KINGS AND QUEENS tell us----we must erase all that is our AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT---I AM MAN----WE THE PEOPLE centuries-old broad public K-university education.

THIS HAS BEEN MOVING FORWARD THESE FEW DECADES OF CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA----BUT THOSE GLOBAL BANKING 5% POLS AND PLAYERS WANT US TO BELIEVE IT IS ALL TRUMP'S FAULT.

We had our morning dose of FAKE NEWS CNN-----there were CNN anchor CUOMO-----of raging CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL 5% CUOMO family talking to BEN CARDIN----raging CLINTON/BUSH NEO-LIBERAL/NEO-CON family having spent these few decades lying, cheating, stealing, having nor morals or ethics----no US RULE OF LAW-----certainly no GOD'S NATURAL LAW-----telling CNN viewers that TRUMP is the one doing all of the above.  


THE US IS  A FAILED STATE WHEN ALL OUR INFORMATION AND PEOPLE ALLOWED TO BE CALLED LEADERS ARE PROPAGANDISTS.


Here we have that global banking 1% BUSINESS INSIDER and what is now a useless WASHINGTON POST printing an article written by A GLOBAL BANKING PLAYER tied to a global NGO PRETENDING to be pushing PEACE




Victor Cha | Center for Strategic and International Studies

www.csis.org/people/victor-cha

Victor Cha joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., in May 2009 as a senior adviser and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair.
Victor Cha - csis.org

www.csis.org › … › Advancing Social Science with Korea

Victor Cha Senior Advisor and Korea Chair Dr. Victor Cha joined CSIS in May 2009 as a Senior Adviser and the inaugural holder of the Korea Chair. He is also Director of Asian Studies and holds the D.S. Song-KF Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.



Dr. Victor Cha | Global Peace Foundation
www.globalpeace.org/people/dr-victor-cha


Dr. Cha is senior adviser and Korea Chair. at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also director of Asian studies and holds the D.S. Song-KF Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Georgetown University is of course that global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE corporation working for OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS. No REAL information coming from CSIS----------
GLOBAL PEACE FOUNDATION-----oh, really??????

What North Koreans really think of their supreme leader

Alex Lockie
Nov. 3, 2016, 11:09 AM

The Center for Strategic and International Studies's Beyond Parallel released new polls that shed light on one of the most obscure areas in global studies — the opinions of ordinary North Korean citizens.



North Korea's 25 million citizens live under an oppressive, totalitarian government that freely detains or even puts to death citizens that stray from official messaging in any way. Simply listening to outside media not sanctioned by the state can result in death.


But the small survey, which gives a voice to those living under unimaginable scrutiny, reveals what many in the international community believe to be true — North Koreans are unhappy with their state and risk severe punishments to cope with it in their personal lives.



"This is the first time we're hearing directly from people inside the country," Dr. Victor Cha, head of Korea studies at CSIS, told The Washington Post.


Beyond Parallel carried out the survey so that it would present minimal risk to those involved. Ultimately, they wound up with a small sample size that nonetheless conveyed a sentiment with near unanimity: North Koreans know that their government does not work, and they criticize it privately at extreme personal peril.



Out of the 36 people polled, zero said that the country's public distribution system of goods provides what they want for a good life.



Out of the 36, only one said they do not joke in private about the government.
While it may not seem like a big deal to those in the West who enjoy free speech and can readily make jokes about their government, consider this 2014 finding from the United Nations on the state of free speech in North Korea:


State surveillance permeates the private lives of all citizens to ensure that virtually no expression critical of the political system or of its leadership goes undetected. Citizens are punished for any "anti-State" activities or expressions of dissent. They are rewarded for reporting on fellow citizens suspected of committing such "crimes".Beyond Parallel reports that formal state-organized neighborhood watches "regularly monitor their members" and report any behavior that deviates from what the state deems appropriate.



The picture painted by Beyond Parallel's research paints a picture starkly in contrast with the images we see flowing out of North Korea's state media, which usually feature Kim Jong Un smiling broadly while touring military or commercial facilities.


The US and international community have long tried to lobby North Korea's greatest ally, China, to exert some influence on the isolated dictatorship to ease the suffering of the North Korean people, and protect the region from Pyongyang's nuclear belligerence.

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The war between JOCKS AND NERDS is thousands of years old-----if 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE do not stop these kinds of tensions-----all 99% of citizens--black, white, and brown citizens---will be GREAT BIG LOSERS.  Our lovers' of books and wisdom KNOW where MOVING FORWARD GLOBAL GOGGLE DIGITAL LIBRARY for only the global 1% AND GLOBAL COMMONER CORE for 99% of US and global citizens WILL END.  That includes JOCKS, COOL KIDS, MERELY RICH KIDS, LOW-INCOME COMMUNITY KIDS, BOOKISH NERDS-----

If a citizen hates to READ they can consider whether they like FREEDOM, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS----if a citizen thinks people who do not READ are fine to be LEFT BEHIND-----then neither groups understands how all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE are needed to STOP MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%-----

WE WILL NOT BE READING TO EMPOWER OURSELVES IN MOVING FORWARD FAR-RIGHT WING, AUTHORITARIAN, MILITARISTIC, EXTREME WEALTH EXTREME POVERTY LIBERTARIAN MARXISM.



Things Book Nerds Will NEVER SAY 
ThePerksOfBooks

Published on Jan 23, 2016  YOU TUBE


This week's public policy discussions will segue from EDUCATION to TECHNOLOGY looking at what are US DOJ and SUPREME COURT rulings that are MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY GRID including moving all access to REAL INFORMATION to global GOOGLE digital library.  These class-action lawsuits tied to WRITERS' GUILD-----have nothing to do with VOICE from 99% of WE THE PEOPLE.  Remember, THE WRITER'S GUILD is from where global banking promotes its freemason LITERARY STARS.  Of course 99% of citizens included in WRITERS' GUILD are not global banking 5% players----but we KNOW those pushing these lawsuits on behalf of GLOBAL GOOGLE are indeed global banking 1% players.

The GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM policy issue for 99% of WE THE PEOPLE is not whether GOOGLE can scan----it is the goal of global monopoly on scanning books.  No matter how many temporary global book scanning projects try to make it look as if its goals are not MONOPOLY ----that is indeed the goal.   The second GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM issue regarding our online readers and books is the goal of 99% of WE THE PEOPLE not being able to access INTERNET ergo, we will not be able to access online books.  Global banking 1% will have no need to write books aimed at our 99% of citizens because our US 99% of citizens will have no money to buy books---no time to read books---and often no ability to read or write.

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND US RULINGS AROUND THESE BOOK COPYRIGHTS WILL BE MADE MOOT UNDER TRANS PACIFIC TRADE PACT AND US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.



News

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Google book-scanning project


Google can continue to scan books over Authors Guild objection


By Grant Gross
Senior Editor, IDG News Service | Apr 18, 2016 8:33 AM PT

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a copyright infringement case against Google for its now 12-year-old effort to scan books and allow people to search them online.


The Supreme Court, without comment, rejected an appeal by the Authors Guild to overturn an October 2015 appeals court ruling finding that the massive Google books program falls under so-called fair use exemptions to copyright protections.


Fair use allows limited reuse of copyright-protected works for criticism, parodies, education, and other purposes. Fair use also allows for people to transform the original content into a new type of work, and that transformation of the printed books was part of Google’s argument in this case.


The Authors Guild had argued that Google’s “wholesale” copying of copyright-protected books would generate profits for the company at the expense of authors. The group wanted the Supreme Court to “recognize Google’s seizure of property as a serious threat to writers and their livelihoods, one which will affect the depth, resilience, and vitality of our intellectual culture,” the Authors Guild said on a webpage detailing the case.


The Supreme Court decision gave authors a “colossal loss,” Authors Guild President Roxana Robinson said in a statement. The guild still believes Google’s effort was “a plain and brazen violation of copyright law.”

Google Books project may lead to a short-term public benefit, but it will come at the expense of the future vitality of U.S. culture, Robinson added. “The denial of review is further proof that we’re witnessing a vast redistribution of wealth from the creative sector to the tech sector, not only with books, but across the spectrum of the arts,” she said.


Google wasn’t immediately available for comment.

The Copyright Alliance, a trade group representing copyright holders, said it was disappointed with the Supreme Court’s decision. The high court has allowed an appeals court decision that “dramatically expands the boundaries” of fair use to stand, Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid wrote in a blog post.


The appeals court “held that Google did not need the consent of the copyright holders of 20 million books to digitize those books in order to create a publicly searchable database containing those and other books,” Kupferschmid added. “The court’s holding was based on a dubious finding that Google’s mass digitizing effort was a fair use because the Google Books project conveys ‘information’ about the works to users and therefore transforms the books.”


The Google Books case wound through the courts since 2005, when the Authors Guild first sued Google. The two sides reached a proposed US $125 million settlement in 2008, but a judge later rejected the deal over concerns that it would give Google a monopoly over scanned books.
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'Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”'


Here is again, global CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ---NPR as is PBS these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA selling the idea that trade jobs are high-paying and going to college/university is a bad choice. MOVING FORWARD dismantling of our strongest in world history access to broad 99% education K-university.

Almost all US 99% WE THE PEOPLE have watched these few decades as those global labor pool workers filled our US city development projects. We watched as our very capable US labor union apprenticeship system was dismantled as trade unionists were not hired. At the same time CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA defunding our US K-12 dismantled a strong vocational high school trade and technology shops.

NOW, global banking 5% are telling US WE THE PEOPLE we are not skilled enough as the goal of bringing a few billion of global labor pool to US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES MOVES FORWARD.


All of these games with US education policy pretending RACE TO TOP is about helping our low-income and working class attain good paying trade jobs is PROPAGANDA. What may be a small pipeline of US trades workers receiving LIVING WAGE will END.

The American 99% WE THE PEOPLE may be fighting for REAL information but it takes no rocket scientist to understand we STILL HAVE GLOBAL BANKING 1% controlling our economy so if they can hire a global labor pool 99% and work them for free to little----that is to where these US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES will take our US trade workers.  We understand our 5% freemason/Greeks have been told they are INSIDER BROTHERS----but global banking 1% have only one talent----LYING, CHEATING, AND STEALING.

ALL THIS TALK OF BUILDING A STRONG VOCATIONAL AND TRADE STRUCTURE TO REPLACE OUR PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY WILL BENEFIT OUR 99% OF WORKING CLASS AND POOR TRADE WORKERS---IS PROPAGANDA.


High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University

High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University




April 25, 20184:33 PM ET
Heard on
All Things Considered

Garret Morgan (center) is training as an ironworker near Seattle and already has a job that pays him $50,000 a year.

Like most other American high school students, Garret Morgan had it drummed into him constantly: Go to college. Get a bachelor's degree.


"All through my life it was, 'if you don't go to college you're going to end up on the streets,' " Morgan said. "Everybody's so gung-ho about going to college."


So he tried it for a while. Then he quit and started training as an ironworker, which is what he is doing on a weekday morning in a nondescript high-ceilinged building with a concrete floor in an industrial park near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.


Morgan and several other men and women are dressed in work boots, hard hats and Carhartt's, clipped to safety harnesses with heavy wrenches hanging from their belts. They're being timed as they wrestle 600-pound I-beams into place.


Seattle is a forest of construction cranes, and employers are clamoring for skilled ironworkers. Morgan, who is 20, is already working on a job site when he isn't at the Pacific Northwest Ironworkers shop. He gets benefits, including a pension, from employers at the job sites where he is training. And he is earning $28.36 an hour, or more than $50,000 a year, which is almost certain to steadily increase.


As for his friends from high school, "they're still in college," he said with a wry grin. "Someday maybe they'll make as much as me."
Some 30 million jobs in the United States that pay an average of $55,000 per year don't require bachelor's degrees.


Raising alarms
While a shortage of workers is pushing wages higher in the skilled trades, the financial return from a bachelor's degree is softening, even as the price — and the average debt into which it plunges students — keeps going up.
But high school graduates have been so effectively encouraged to get a bachelor's that high-paid jobs requiring shorter and less expensive training are going unfilled. This affects those students and also poses a real threat to the economy.


"Parents want success for their kids," said Mike Clifton, who teaches machining at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology, about 20 miles from Seattle. "They get stuck on [four-year bachelor's degrees], and they're not seeing the shortage there is in tradespeople until they hire a plumber and have to write a check."




In
a new report, the Washington State Auditor found that good jobs in the skilled trades are going begging because students are being almost universally steered to bachelor's degrees.
Among other things, the Washington auditor recommended that career guidance — including choices that require less than four years in college — start as early as the seventh grade.


"There is an emphasis on the four-year university track" in high schools, said Chris Cortines, who co-authored the report. Yet, nationwide, three out of 10 high school grads who go to four-year public universities haven't earned degrees within six years,
according to the National Student Clearinghouse. At four-year private colleges, that number is more than 1 in 5.


"Being more aware of other types of options may be exactly what they need," Cortines said. In spite of a perception "that college is the sole path for everybody," he said, "when you look at the types of wages that apprenticeships and other career areas pay and the fact that you do not pay four years of tuition and you're paid while you learn, these other paths really need some additional consideration."


And it's not just in Washington state.

"Parents want success for their kids. They get stuck on [four-year bachelor's degrees], and they're not seeing the shortage there is in tradespeople until they hire a plumber and have to write a check.

Mike Clifton, Lake Washington Institute of Technology

Seventy-percent of construction companies nationwide are having trouble finding qualified workers,
according to the Associated General Contractors of America; in Washington, the proportion is 80 percent.


There are already more trade jobs like carpentry, electrical, plumbing, sheet-metal work and pipe-fitting than Washingtonians to fill them,
the state auditor reports. Many pay more than the state's average annual wage of $54,000.


Construction, along with health care and personal care, will account for one-third of all new jobs through 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
There will also be a need for new plumbers and new electricians. And, as politicians debate a massive overhaul of the nation's roads, bridges and airports, the U.S. Department of Education reports that there will be 68 percent more job openings in infrastructure-related fields in the next five years than there are people training to fill them.
"The economy is definitely pushing this issue to the forefront," said Amy Morrison Goings, president of the Lake Washington Institute of Technology, which educates students in these fields. "There isn't a day that goes by that a business doesn't contact the college and ask the faculty who's ready to go to work."



In all, some 30 million jobs in the United States that pay an average of $55,000 per year don't require bachelor's degrees, according to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce.


Yet the march to bachelor's degrees continues. And while people who get them are more likely to be employed and make more money than those who don't, that premium appears to be softening;
their median earnings were lower in 2015, when adjusted for inflation, than in 2010.


"There's that perception of the bachelor's degree being the American dream, the best bang for your buck," said Kate Blosveren Kreamer, deputy executive director of Advance CTE, an association of state officials who work in career and technical education. "The challenge is that in many cases it's become the fallback. People are going to college without a plan, without a career in mind, because the mindset in high school is just, 'Go to college.' "

 It's not that finding a job in the trades, or even manufacturing, means needing no education after high school. Most regulators and employers require certificates, certifications or associate degrees. But those cost less and take less time than earning a bachelor's degree. Tuition and fees for in-state students to attend a community or technical college in Washington State, for example, come to less than half the cost of a four-year public university,
the state auditor points out, and less than a tenth of the price of attending a private four-year college.


People with career and technical educations are also more likely to be employed than their counterparts with academic credentials,
the U.S. Department of Education reports, and significantly more likely to be working in their fields of study.


Young people don't seem to be getting that message. The proportion of high school students who earned three or more credits in occupational education — typically an indication that they're interested in careers in the skilled trades — has fallen from 1 in 4 in 1990 to 1 in 5 now,
according to the U.S. Department of Education.
Washington is not the only state devoting attention to this. California
is spending $200 million to improve the delivery of career and technical education. Iowa community colleges and businesses are collaborating to increase the number of "work-related learning opportunities," including apprenticeships, job shadowing and internships. Tennessee has made its technical colleges free.


So severe are looming shortages of workers in the skilled trades in Michigan that Gov. Rick Snyder in February announced
a $100 million proposal he likens to the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II.


At the federal level, there is bipartisan support for making Pell grants available for short-term job-training courses and not just university tuition. The Trump administration supports the idea.


For all the promises to improve vocational education, however, a principal federal source of money for it, called Tech-Prep, hasn't been funded since 2011. A quarter of states last year reduced their own funding for postsecondary career and technical education, according to the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education.


The branding issue
Money isn't the only issue, advocates for career and technical education say. An even bigger challenge is convincing parents that it leads to good jobs.

"They remember 'voc-ed' from what they were in high school, which is not necessarily what they aspire to for their own kids," Kreamer said.
The parents "are definitely harder to convince because there is that stigma of the six-pack-totin' ironworker," said Greg Christiansen, who runs the ironworkers training program. Added Kairie Pierce, apprenticeship and college director for the Washington State Labor Council of the AFL-CIO: "It sort of has this connotation of being a dirty job. 'It's hard work — I want something better for my son or daughter.' "


Of the $200 million that California is spending on vocational education, $6 million is going into
a campaign
to improve the way people regard it. The Lake Washington Institute of Technology changed its name from Lake Washington Technical College, said Goings, its president, to avoid being stereotyped as a vocational school.


These perceptions fuel the worry that, if students are urged as early as the seventh grade to consider the trades, then low-income, first-generation and ethnic and racial minority high school students will be channeled into blue-collar jobs while wealthier and white classmates are pushed by their parents to get bachelor's degrees.


"When CTE was vocational education, part of the reason we had a real disinvestment from the system was because we were tracking low-income and minority kids into these pathways," Kreamer said. "There is this tension between, do you want to focus on the people who would get the most benefit from these programs, and — is that tracking?"


Amy Morrison Goings, president of the Lake Washington Institute of Technology, says, "There isn't a day that goes by that a business doesn't contact the college and ask the faculty who's ready to go to work."  In a quest for prestige and rankings, and to bolster real-estate values, high schools also like to emphasize the number of their graduates who go on to four-year colleges and universities.


Jessica Bruce followed that path, enrolling in college after high school for one main reason: because she was recruited to play fast-pitch softball. "I was still trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life," she said.


She never earned her degree and now, she's an apprentice ironworker, making $32.42 an hour, or more than $60,000 a year, while continuing her training. At 5-foot-2, "I can run with the big boys," she said, laughing.
As for whether anyone looks down on her for not having a bachelor's degree, Bruce doesn't particularly care.
"The misconception," she said, "is that we don't make as much money."
And then she laughed again.



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HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF------global banking 1% have used LAISSEZ-FAIRE goes to COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM for a few hundred years as a way to claw back all gains by the 99% of citizens in wealth and assets.  We discussed in detail that MARXISM is NOT A PRO-WORKER MOVEMENT.  MARXISM is global banking 1% taking our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE to enslaving societal structures.  Those international trade unions are working for global banking 1%.  We have shouted against this international status for our US labor unions---with trades it is AFL-CIO.

The goal of global banking 1% in MOVING FORWARD FAR-RIGHT WING MARXISM is to first create CLASS TENSIONS----our US middle-class academics become the enemy ------university is elitist so the 99% are re-educated to want only vocational tracking to a job.  THAT IS WHAT RACE TO TOP/COMMONER CORE is doing.  It is the job of those 5% global banking players to sell PATHWAYS TO HIGHER EDUCATION is not worth it to our US 99% of citizens, black, white, and brown citizens.  THE ITUC below----as with the UNITED NATIONS ILO----are NOT fighting for worker's rights----they are pushing global banking policies through these ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT 5% PLAYER LABOR UNIONS.


Global Labor Unions and Federations | AFL-CIO
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The AFL-CIO is an affiliate of the International Trade Union Confederation, a worldwide union network that represents 175 million workers in 151 countries and territories. ITUC's primary mission is to promote and defend workers' rights through international cooperation between trade unions, global campaigning and ...


We are sure our US 99% of trades citizens understand these MOVING FORWARD policies are bringing workers down---having no intentions of making educational structures BETTER for our 99% WE THE PEOPLE.  Our 5% labor union leader players are going under the bus.

THIS IS WHY OUR US TEACHERS' UNION NATIONAL LEADERS KEEP SILENT ON GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM EDUCATION ISSUES AND PROMOTE RACE TO TOP/COMMONER CORE/GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUS CHARTER K-CAREER.

If we look globally we see these same far-right wing global banking MARXIST structures taking all FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES-----MOVING FORWARD in
US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA.  We are watching as our US 99% of citizens knowing our US K-university system was a great system for advancing public knowledge, citizenship education, and leadership opportunities.  What we see today in US as in all FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES are global banking 1% labor players promoting global banking candidates and education policy as job training apprenticeship K-CAREER.

Global federations


Global federations are international federations of national and regional trade unions organising in a specific industry and representing workers in those industries across the globe. Global federations promote and enforce workers rights, social justice and solidarity as well as raising issues of common concern with employers, governments and international bodies.

Unite is affiliated to the following global federations



IndustriALL Global Union
IndustriALL Global Union represents 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors and is a new force in global solidarity taking up the fight for better working conditions and trade union rights around the world.

Founded on 19 June 2012, the new organization brings together affiliates of the former global union federations: International Metalworkers' Federation (
IMF), International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) and International Textiles Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF).

IndustriALL Global Union represents workers in a wide range of sectors from extraction of oil and gas, mining, generation and distribution of electric power, to manufacturing of metals and metal products, shipbuilding, automotive, aerospace, mechanical engineering, electronics, chemicals, rubber, pulp and paper, building materials, textiles, garments, leather and footwear and environmental services.

To find out more please go to
www.industriall-union.org


International Transport Workers' Federation – ITF
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers' unions. Any independent trade union with members in the transport industry is eligible for membership of the ITF. 708 unions representing over 4.5 million transport workers in 154 countries are members of the ITF. It is one of several Global Federation Unions allied with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).The ITF's headquarters is located in London and it has offices in Nairobi, Ouagadougou, Tokyo, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Amman, Moscow and Brussels.
More information


Building and Wood Workers' International – BWI
At its World Congress in Buenos Aires, on 9 December 2005, the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW) and the World Federation of Building and Wood Workers (WFBW) created a new global union federation, the Building and Wood Workers' International - BWI.

The BWI is the Global Union Federation grouping free and democratic unions with members in the Building, Building Materials, Wood, Forestry and Allied sectors.

The BWI groups together around 328 trade unions representing around 12 million members in 130 countries. The Headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland. Regional Offices and Project Offices are located in Panama and Malaysia, South Africa, India, Burkina Faso, Curaçao, Chile, Kenya, Russia, Peru, Brazil and Thailand.

The last congress of the BWI was held in Lille France in December 2009

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International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations – IUF
The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) is an international federation of trade unions representing workers employed in:


  • agriculture and plantations
  • the preparation and manufacture of food and beverages
  • hotels, restaurants and catering services
  • all stages of tobacco processing
The IUF is currently composed of 336 trade unions in 120 countries representing a combined representational membership of over 12 million workers (including a financial membership of 2.7 million). It is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Public Services International – PSI
Public Services International is a global trade union federation representing 20 million working women and men who deliver vital public services in more than 150 countries. PSI membership work in social services, health care, municipal services, central government and public utilities such as water and electricity. Women represent two-thirds of the membership.

PSI champions human rights, advocates for social justice and promotes universal access to quality public services. PSI works with the United Nations system and in partnership with labour, civil society and other organisations.

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Union Network International – UNI
UNI Global Union is the voice of 20 million service sector workers around the world. Through 900 affiliated unions, UNI represents workers in 150 countries and in every region of the world. UNI represents workers in the Cleaning & Security; Commerce; Finance; Gaming; Graphical & Packaging; Hair & Beauty; ICTS; Media, Entertainment & Arts; Post & Logistics; Social Insurance; Sport; Temp & Agency Workers and Tourism industries.
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As REAL left social progressive academics having goals of REAL free market and 99% opportunity and access for black, white, and brown citizens----this is what we know: global banking has been successful in making our working class think the professional class works against them. This comes with promotions to management positions ---this comes from our politicians being those university graduates in most cases. These few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA eliminated the jobs of ...most middle-management---most 99% of WE THE PEOPLE politicians----and what our US workers got these few decades was pre-Christian, CATO/NERO/SENECA OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS 5% players THE OPPOSITE of our REAL 99% white collar professionals.

Our US and European middle-class have always worked to protect and lift those working class and poor----we are not the enemy of trades workers. We cannot be CITIZENS--we cannot gain wealth and economic stability with businesses ----if we do not have REAL INFORMATION. Our 5% freemason/Greeks think they have that information ---but they do not.


IF 99% US WE THE PEOPLE ALLOW MOVING FORWARD KILLING NOT ONLY OUR STRONG PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY BUT OUR ABILITY TO ACCESS BOOKS----THERE ARE NOT WINNERS BUT THE GLOBAL 1%.

Six Reasons Google Books Failed
Robert Darnton  NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

John Pope-Hennessey; drawing by David Levine


Judge Denny Chin’s opinion in rejecting the settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who sued it for infringement of their copyrights can be read as both as a map of wrong turns taken in the past and as an invitation to design a better route into the digital future. Extrapolating from the dense, 48-page text that accompanied the judge’s March 23 decision, it is possible to locate six crucial points where things went awry:


First, Google abandoned its original plan to digitize books in order to provide online searching. According to that plan, you would have been able to use Google to search the contents of books for a particular word or brief passage, but would not have been able to view or download a lengthy excerpt or an entire book. Thus, Google could have justified its display of snippets of text in the search results by invoking the doctrine of fair use. In this way, it might have won its case against the plaintiffs, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, and at the same time it could have helped revive fair use as a legitimate means of spreading knowledge—for example, in making digitized material available for teaching purposes.


Instead, Google chose to make its opponents its partners in a gigantic new library and book business, Google Book Search. The business plan led to a second misstep, because it included a dubious opt-out clause. Authors of out-of-print books who failed to notify Google of their refusal to participate in its project were deemed to have accepted it. (If enough of those authors could be located or volunteered to consent to the settlement, Google Book Search might build up a large database of books published since 1923. But the logistics and the transaction costs might make the task unfeasible, and the problem of orphan books would remain unsolvable without congressional legislation.)


Third, in setting terms for the digitization of orphan books—copyrighted works whose rights holders are not known—the settlement eliminated the possibility of competition. It gave Google exclusive protection against legal action by any rights holders who might be identified—no small matter, as there are probably several million orphan books (recent estimates go as high as five million), and the damages for copyright infringement could begin at $100,000 per title. This provision made Google and its partners effective proprietors of works they had not created. According to the original version of the settlement, they were to receive revenue from the sale of the orphan books according to a standard formula for dividing the pie: 37 percent to Google, 63 percent to the plaintiffs. That provision was corrected in a revised version of the settlement, but the Amended Settlement Agreement (ASA) continued to give Google legal protection that would be denied to any of its potential competitors. It amounted to changing copyright law by litigation instead of legislation.


Fourth, rights held by authors and publishers located outside the United States raised similar problems. Foreign rights holders objected that the digitization of their books would violate international copyright law, particularly in the case of out-of-print books, which Google proposed to market unless it received opt-out notification from the authors or their estates. The ASA met most of those objections by eliminating copyrighted books that were published abroad, except in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. But foreigners continued to protest about the potential violation of their rights and noted that they, too, had an orphan book problem.


Fifth, the settlement was an attempt to resolve a class action suit, but the plaintiffs did not adequately represent the class to which they belonged. The Authors Guild has 8,000 members but the number of living writers who have published works during the last half century probably amounts to far more than one hundred thousand. As Judge Chin observed, 6,800 living writers—nearly as many as are members of the Guild—chose to opt out of Google Book Search, and many objected in memoranda to the court that they did not consider themselves represented by the Guild. Some, especially academics who do not live from their pens, said they cared more about the diffusion of their writing than about the small amounts that they might gain by sales.


Sixth, in the course of administering its sales, both of individual books and of access to its data base by means of institutional subscriptions, Google might abuse readers’ privacy by accumulating information about their behavior. Google could know who its readers were, precisely what they read, and when they did the reading. The ASA provided some assurances about this danger, but Judge Chin recommended more, should the ASA be revised and resubmitted to the court.


The cumulative effect of these objections, elaborated in 500 memoranda filed with the court and endorsed in large part by Judge Chin’s decision, could give the impression that the settlement, even in its amended version, is so flawed that it deserves to be pronounced dead and buried. Yet it has many positive features. Above all, it could provide millions of people with access to millions of books. If the price were moderate, the benefit would be extraordinary, and the result would give new life to old books, which rarely get consulted from their present locations on the remote shelves or distant storage facilities of research libraries. Google also committed itself to furnish its service free of charge on at least one terminal in all public libraries, to adapt the digitized texts to the needs of the visually impaired, and to make its data available for large-scale, quantitative research of the “non-consumptive” kind.


WE KNOW PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE BEING PRIVATIZED TO GLOBAL BANKING 1% AND CLOSED-----HOW WILL THE FURNISHING SERVICE FREE OF CHARGE HELP 99% WE THE PEOPLE?


How can these advantages be preserved without the accompanying drawbacks? By creating a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)—that is, a collection of works in all formats that would make our cultural heritage available online and free of charge to everyone everywhere.

OH, REALLY???????

Having [argued so often] (http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/oct/04/library-without-walls/) for this alternative to Google Book Search, I may fall victim to the syndrome known in France as preaching for one’s own saint. Instead of repeating the arguments, I would like to show how the case for the DPLA would look if seen from the perspective of similar attempts in other countries.


The most impressive attempts to create national digital libraries are taking shape in Norway and The Netherlands. They have state support, and they involve plans to digitize books covered by copyright, even those that are currently in print, by means of collective agreements--not legalistic devices like the class action suit employed by Google and its partners, but voluntary arrangements, which reconcile the interests of the authors and publishers who own the rights with those of readers who want access to everything in their national languages. Of course, the number of books in Norwegian and Dutch is small compared with those in English. To form an idea of what could be done in the United States, it is better to study another venture, the pan-European digital library known as [Europeana] (http://www.europeana.eu/portal/aboutus.html).


Europeana is still in a formative phase, but its basic structure is well developed. Instead of accumulating collections of its own, it will function as an aggregator of aggregators—that is, it will standardize data that flows in from providers in centralized locations, which themselves will have integrated data derived from many individual sources. Information will therefore be accumulated and coordinated at three levels: particular libraries will digitize their collections; national or regional centers will integrate them into central data bases; and Europeana will transform those data bases, from 27 constituent countries, into a single, seamless network. To the users, all these currents of information will remain invisible. They will simply search for an item—a book, an image, a recording, or a video—and the system will direct them to a digitized version of it, wherever it may be, making it available for downloading on a personal computer or a hand-held device.


To deliver such service, the system will require not only an effective technological architecture but also a way of coordinating the information required to locate the digitized items—“metadata,” as librarians call it. The staff of Europeana at The Hague has perfected a code to harmonize the metadata that will flow into it from every corner of the Continent. Unlike Google, it will not store digital files in a single data base or server farm. It will operate as a nerve center for what is known as a “distributed network,” leaving libraries, archives, and museums to digitize and preserve their own collections in the capillary system of the organic whole.


A digital library for America might well follow this model, although Europeana has not yet proven its viability. When a prototype went live on November 20, 2008, it was flooded with so many attempts at searches that the system crashed. But that failure can be taken as testimony to the demand for such a mega-library. Since then, Europeana has enlarged its capacity. It will resume functioning at full tilt in the near future; and by 2015 it expects to make thirty million items, a third of them books, available free of charge.


Who will pay for it? The European Union, drawing on contributions from its member states. (Europeana’s current budget is 4,923,000 euros, but most of the expenses fall on the institutions that create and preserve the digital files.) This financial model may not be suitable for the United States, but we Americans benefit from something that Europe lacks, a rich array of independent foundations dedicated to the public welfare. By combining forces, a few dozen foundations could provide enough money to get the DPLA up and running. It is impossible at this point to provide even ballpark estimates of the overall cost, but it should come to less than the 750 million euros that President Sarkozy pledged for the digitization of France’s “cultural patrimony.”


Once its basic structure has been erected, the DPLA could be enlarged incrementally. And after it has proven its capacity to provide services—for education at all levels, for the information needs of businesses, for research in every conceivable field—it might attract public funds. Long-term sustainability would remain a problem to be solved.


Other problems must be confronted in the near future. As the Google case demonstrated, nearly everything published since 1923, when copyright restrictions begin to apply, is out of bounds for digitization and distribution. The DPLA must respect copyright. In order to succeed where Google failed, it will have to include several million orphan books; and it will not be able to do that unless Congress clears the way by appropriate legislation. Congress nearly passed orphan-book bills in 2006 and 2008. It failed in part because of the uncertainty surrounding Google Book Search. A not-for-profit digital library truly devoted to the public welfare could be of such benefit to their constituents that members of Congress might pass a new bill carefully designed to protect the DPLA from litigation should holders of rights to orphan books be located and bring suit for damages.


Even better, Congress could create a mechanism to compensate authors for the downloading of books that are out of print but covered by copyright. Voluntary collective agreements among authors of in-print books, similar to those in Norway and The Netherlands, could make much contemporary literature accessible through the DPLA. The copyright problems connected with works produced outside the United States might be resolved by agreements between the DPLA and Europeana as well as by similar alliances with aggregators on other continents. “Born digital” items in diverse formats (among them the growing number of ebooks that do not also appear in printed form) pose still more problems. But the non-commercial character of the DPLA and its commitment to the public good would make all such difficulties look less formidable than they seemed to be when they were confronted by a company intent on maximizing profit at the expense of the public.



In short, the collapse of the settlement has a great deal to teach us. It should help us emulate the positive aspects of Google Book Search and avoid the pitfalls that made Google’s enterprise flawed from the beginning. The best way to do so and to provide the American people with what they need in order to thrive in the new information age is to create a Digital Public Library of America.


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As our US public K-university becomes nothing but online lessons and virtual schools killing all our strong US educational structures and even taking the real estate to global banking----as we allow online lessons replace textbooks---as we allow online digitized books replace all sources students need to support their studies---as we allow all books to be digitized that strong students need in order to excel-----we are MOVING FORWARD to only global corporate campuses having access to internet-----we KNOW global GOOGLE and these global 2% player digitizers will not allow UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO GLOBAL GOOGLE DIGITAL LIBRARY.

We are setting the stage for our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE to become those DARK AGES serfs and slaves never knowing REAL INFORMATION---never able to access what we need to escape that DARK AGES enslavement.
IT IS EASY PEASY TO REBUILD OUR STRONG US PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY---WE SIMPLY HAVE TO STOP MOVING FORWARD TO GET RID OF ALL GLOBAL BANKING 5% POLS AND PLAYERS.

Study on online charter schools: ‘It is literally as if the kid did not go to school for an entire year’


 By Valerie Strauss Email the author

October 31, 2015


A new study on the effectiveness of online charter schools is  nothing short of damning — even though it was at least partly funded by a private pro-charter  foundation. It effectively says that the average student who attends might as well not enroll.


The study was done by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes, known as CREDO, and located at Stanford University, in collaboration with the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington and Mathematica Policy Research. CREDO’s founding director, Margaret Raymond, served as project director. CREDO receives funding from the pro-charter Walton Family Foundation, which provided support for the new research.


CREDO has released a number of reports in recent years on the effectiveness of charters — using math and reading standardized test scores as the measure — which collectively conclude that some perform better than traditional public schools and some don’t. In its newest report, released this week, CREDO evaluated online K-12 charter schools. There are 17 states with online charter students: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia.


The study sought to answer this question: “How did enrollment in an online charter school affect the academic growth of students?”

AS CREDO AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY GREAT BIG GLOBAL BANKING 1% PLAYER INSTITUTIONS KNOW----LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE ACADEMICS BACK IN 1960-70S ALREADY PROVIDED THESE DATA SAYING ONLINE LESSONS KILLED ACHIEVEMENT AND LEARNING. 
  Academic growth, as mentioned before, is measured by standardized test scores for the purpose of this study, which evaluated scores from online charter students between 2008 and 2013 and compared them to students in traditional public schools (not brick-and-mortar charters). Here are some of the findings:


  • Students in online charters lost an average of about 72 days of learning in reading.
  • Students in online charters lost 180 days of learning in math during the course of a 180-day school year. Yes, you read that right. As my colleague Lyndsey Layton wrote in this story about the study, it’s as if the students did not attend school at all when it comes to math.
  • The average student in an online charter had lower reading scores than students in traditional schools everywhere except Wisconsin and Georgia, and had lower math scores everywhere except in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Layton quoted Raymond as saying, “There’s still some possibility that there’s positive learning, but it’s so statistically significantly different from the average, it is literally as if the kid did not go to school for an entire year.”


The implications for the results, according to the study:
  1. Current online charter schools may be a good fit for some students, but the evidence suggests that online charters don’t serve very well the relatively atypical set of students that currently attend these schools, much less the general population. Academic benefits from online charter schools are currently the exception rather than the rule. Online charter schools provide a maximum of flexibility for students with schedules which do not fit the TPS [traditional public school] setting. This can be a benefit or a liability as flexibility requires discipline and maturity to maintain high standards. Not all families may be equipped to provide the direction needed for online schooling. Online charter schools should ensure their programs are a good fit for their potential students’ particular needs.
  2. Current oversight policies in place may not be sufficient for online charter schools. There is evidence that some online charter schools have been able to produce consistent academic benefits for students, but most online charter schools have not. The charter bargain has been “Flexibility for Accountability” and all charter schools must be held to that concept. Authorizers must step up to their responsibilities and demand online charter providers improve outcomes for students. Authorizers should hold a firm line with those schools which cannot meet their end of the charter bargain.
  3. States should examine the current progress of existing online programs before allowing expansion. Online schools have the potential to serve large numbers of students with practically no physical restraints on their expansion. As such, mechanisms which have typically played a role in regulating the growth of brick-and-mortar schools such as facility construction and limited potential student pools do not exert pressure on online schools. Without these natural constraints, online schools have the potential to expand more rapidly than traditional schools. This makes it critical for authorizers to ensure online charter schools demonstrate positive outcomes for students before being allowed to grow and that online charter schools grow at a pace which continues to lead to improved outcomes for their students.

It’s hard to overlook the language in these recommendations.

“The evidence suggests that online charters don’t serve very well the relatively atypical set of students that currently attend these schools, much less the general population.” Suggest?


“Current oversight policies in place may not be sufficient for online charter schools.” May?

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THE HOLY GRAIL is myth-making by those same global banking 1% dangling the thoughts of wealth and power before our 5% freemason/Greeks.

We discussed the WIZARD OF OZ with the YELLOW BRICK ROAD------with the BIG DEAD HEAD hiding a 5% player behind the curtain----that KINGDOM OF OZ where all that you need is simply supplied----SHANGRAI-LA!
These are all global banking marketing ploys sold to draw people to the PYRAMID SCAM.
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THE HOLY GRAIL represents ANYTHING-----if someone is willing to devote a life seeking the GRAIL----what is most precious to that person will manifest as that GRAIL. PONCE DE LEON had a grail looking like the FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH------
For CORONADO that grail was a CITY OF GOLD----

'Coronado dies, without finding the fabled cities of gold ...
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/coronado...


Article Details: Coronado dies, without finding the fabled cities of gold'.

Our LOVETT novel seems to make the quest of grail about SPIRIT/SOUL. Finding that grail of entry into GOD'S KINGDOM---HEAVEN.

CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA and their foreign sovereignty MALTA as human resources are very good in identifying those 5% players LIVING JUST FOR TODAY---SHOW ME THE MONEY folks. Global banking plays on individual PASSIONS---our idea of what a GRAIL would be while history repeats itself as the GRAIL of OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS has always been accumulating wealth and power anyway they can.

LOVETT'S grail novel is entertaining. LOVETT wrote that novel to promote global banking 1% policy of GLOBAL DIGITALIZED LIBRARY that only the global 1% will be able to access.
When our US and global 99% of citizens get mad at what global banking is MOVING FORWARD----remember---it was those 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek players black, white, and brown players giving global banking 1% their power.....hold them accountable---please don't harm 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens having nothing to do with these few decades of KILLING AMERICA.




  NO MORE WARS AND CIVIL UNREST----NOT IN US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES!




'What does the Bible say about the holy grail (sangreal)?


holy grail, sangreal

Question: "What does the Bible say about the holy grail (sangreal)?"


Answer: The Bible has nothing to say about the Holy Grail because the existence of the Holy Grail is nothing but a mythical legend that has been popularized recently by such books as The DaVinci Code and a renewed interest in King Arthur'.

What does the Bible say about the holy grail (sangreal)?

Question: "What does the Bible say about the holy grail (sangreal)?"

Answer: The Bible has nothing to say about the Holy Grail because the existence of the Holy Grail is nothing but a mythical legend that has been popularized recently by such books as The DaVinci Code and a renewed interest in King Arthur.

There are many legends surrounding the Holy Grail; however, most scholars believe the original source of the legends is a Celtic myth of a horn of plenty (or cauldron or other vessel). This vessel was supposed to be the source of all things good, such as unquenchable food, health, success in battle, etc. According to the legend, this vessel was the source of divine favor because it was thought to be the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper, or a cup that had caught Jesus' blood as He hung on the cross. However, not all early Grail stories are consistent on even this. In some stories the Grail is a cup, while in others it is a cauldron or a stone. In these mythical stories, the importance is not what the Grail is but what it represents, which is divine power.

The most popular of these stories says that the Holy Grail was the cup that Jesus used at the Last Supper and that Joseph of Arimathea later used to collect drops of Jesus’ blood at the crucifixion. This legend has it that Joseph of Arimathea or his descendants brought the cup to Britain where it was lost. This is where the legend of the Holy Grail becomes intertwined with the legend of King Arthur and his knights. Because this mythical vessel was supposed to be the source of all things good and the source of divine favor, those who were noble and pure in heart—such as King Arthur and his knights—desired to possess it and use its power for good.

These legends of the Holy Grail were the most popular in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, which were the darkest of the Dark Ages. At this time Europe was a spiritual wasteland, and people looked to legends such as these for hope as the tales represented a lost golden age and the efforts to regain it. The legend of the Holy Grail seems to arise out of the Celtic church’s claim to apostolic succession, which they traced back through Joseph of Arimathea to the apostle John. In the midst of oppression by the Catholic Church, which claimed that its apostolic succession and priesthood authority was through the apostle Peter, the legend of the Holy Grail represented hope to the Celtic church through an alternate line of apostolic succession. While the Catholic Church claimed that they were the only church with apostolic authority, the Holy Grail became a tangible symbol of the Celtic church’s claim to equal authority, also by a direct line of apostolic succession.

While the mythical stories of a Holy Grail make for interesting reading and exciting movies, they should not be of great concern for true Christians. As born-again believers in Christ, our hope is not in some vessel that might have held Christ’s blood or might have been used by Him at the Last Supper; our hope and assurance are in His sinless life, His atonement on the cross, His resurrection from the dead, and His promise of eternal life to all who believe in Him. Christians do not need to look to a priest who traces his authority back to Christ by apostolic succession when we have the authority of the Word of God and direct access to the only mediator between man and God, Jesus Christ (
1 Timothy 2:5).



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'US News began publishing ratings in 1983, roughly 15 years before Baby Boomers' children started going to college in big numbers'.

We see from yesterday's post that global banking placed MOVING FORWARD on steroids during REAGAN/CLINTON setting the stage for ROBBER BARON fleecing of America right as our BABY BOOMER children were heading to college.  Baby boomers fought that WW2--Korean---Vietnamese Wars now their children were to benefit from all that FREEDOM, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

What happened was the opposite.  Those US colleges and universities being tied to global banking corporatization were heavy with GREEK LIFE.  Before late 1980s and 90s we had strong REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES in our US public K-university and we had a strong voice in media.  What we discuss every day NOW is exactly what was mainstream back in 1960s---70s----80s.  We KNEW where MOVING FORWARD was going back then as now---and we KNEW what the MASTER PLAN for bringing our US cities to FAILED STATES to rebuild as US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES would look like. 

This is when our US higher education went from educating our US students to be CITIZENS----STRONG BUSINESS LEADERS working in our communities to build REAL free market economies----to PLEDGING TO WORK FOR GLOBAL BANKING 1%-----handing over their status as US CITIZENS.

This hit our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens hard-----but private schools were tying their children to being 5% players in higher rates then our public schools. 


BOTH GRADUATES OF THESE US SCHOOLS ENDED THOSE SOVEREIGN RIGHTS AS CITIZENS.

We discussed our K-12 private schools earlier---like BOYS LATIN, GILMAN SCHOOL, BRYN MAWR et al as being made the school of choice for those 5% players as our US city public schools were defunded and made dysfunctional.  We also showed how these private K-12 are slated to be closed and disappear.  All US 99% of students black, white, and brown citizens whether private schooled parents or public schooled parents are going to be funneled into these pre-K education testing vocational tracking structures MOVING FORWARD as RACE TO THE TOP/COMMONER CORE.

While REAL left social progressives have always fought for integrated public schools meaning not only race but gender----we never had any problem with parents choosing these exclusive schools. What happened during REAGAN/CLINTON as those 5% players being made to feel they were WINNERS were funneled through these private schools then opening them to US IVY LEAGUES was the killing of our 99% WE THE PEOPLE from having REAL INFORMATION to having myth-making and propaganda.


The Power of a Girls' School

An all-girls' environment provides a wonderful opportunity for girls to explore who they are as young women and scholars without social pressure. It's good to be smart at Bryn Mawr! Our students are academically engaged, inquisitive and not afraid to speak their minds. Enthusiasm for all subjects – including math, science, public speaking and technology – is nurtured from the youngest age; no discipline is "off limits" for girls. At Bryn Mawr, students collaborate with their fellow students in the classroom, on a sports team, while planning club activities and more. Girls learn quickly that they have much to offer and much to learn from one another, leading to true lifelong friendships.





Leadership Opportunities

Leadership opportunities abound in student government, clubs and athletics. Bryn Mawr students plan, propose and lead over 40 clubs each year (Princeton Model Congress, Operation Smile, Environmental Coalition, "The Quill" newspaper and Mock Trial, to name just a few). Bryn Mawr girls gain confidence in their leadership abilities as they prepare election speeches for class officer positions, speak to prospective families as leaders of the Ambassador Club or learn to run a meeting in their role as club president.





Athletic Opportunities

With hundreds of girls who like to play everything from ice hockey to squash, the variety and levels of athletics offerings at Bryn Mawr is staggering! Team bonding and spirit are celebrated at Bryn Mawr. Whether an ace tennis player or the team manager, each girl's contribution is valued. Many girls continue to play their chosen sports in college.



Arts Offerings

Bryn Mawr girls can be found building stage sets, developing photos in the darkroom, starring in the fall musical, playing the cello in a string ensemble and more. Dance, music, theatre and the fine arts are integral parts of the curriculum at Bryn Mawr and are enjoyed by novices and serious aficionados alike. Bryn Mawr girls feel free to try their hands at many things, supported by their teachers and classmates.



Social and Emotional Support

In this complicated and fast-paced world there are many issues that pertain to girls and their development. At Bryn Mawr, we speak about these topics freely. This comfortable atmosphere, with strong female role models as positive mentors, enables our students to open up, and share their feelings and know they are not alone. It is this nurturing environment that allows girls to truly become comfortable with themselves.
Bryn Mawr offers girls the academic and personal support they need to develop from young girls into confident young women.
Acknowledgements

Bryn Mawr is proud to be a member of the National Coalition of Girls Schools. For more information on the many advantages of a girls' school, view the NCGS video above or visit www.ncgs.org.
    • Apple Distinguished School
      2013-2017




Located in Baltimore, Maryland, The Bryn Mawr School is a private all-girls kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school with a coed preschool for ages 2 months through 5 years. Bryn Mawr provides students with exceptional educational opportunities on a beautiful 26-acre campus within the city limits. Inquisitive girls, excellent teaching, strong student-teacher relationships and a clear mission sustain our vibrant school community where girls always come first.

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Boys' Latin of Philadelphia Charter School - Wikipedia

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/Boys%27_Latin_of_Philadelphia_Charter_School

Boys' Latin of Philadelphia Charter School is a Pennsylvania approved secondary charter school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.



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It was this MOVING FORWARD policy by global banking to kill our US strong public education both private and public schools -----capturing employment and jobs to only those 5% freemason/Greek players these few decades including those foreign student global 1% and their 2% which is causing massive unemployment for today's US WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizen college grads.  Not that they are less educated----not that they are not as smart as those 5% players-----it is orchestrated by global banking 1% killing of our US standards of life.

The massive global banking frauds and government corruption during ROBBER BARON few decades has set the stage for the next round of MANUFACTURED CRISES including the further defunding and attack on our US school system.....MOVING FORWARD to ONE WORLD ONLINE COMMONER CORE for the 99% of WE THE PEOPLE vs the ONE WORLD ONLINE GLOBAL IVY LEAGUE education for only those global 1%.

THIS IS BACK TO DARK AGES FOR US WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens===as well as our 99% of new immigrant citizens.

SCHOOLING TAKING OUR CHILDREN NOWHERE.


We showed earlier how AFFINITY GROUPS are being tied to MOVING FORWARD US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE AND SMART CITY policies being global banking pushers of job policies-----college grads need to get this degree that vocational training ----after which these US citizens graduate and there is NO JOB FOR THEM---now its another job training employment category.

THIS GLOBAL BANKING ECONOMY STARTED DURING REAGAN/CLINTON HAS ALWAYS HAD THESE GOALS.  CONTROLLING THE ECONOMY AND JOB EMPLOYMENT THEN TYING OUR US SCHOOLS TO THAT CAPTURED ECONOMY.



Why are so many students failing to find good jobs after college?


By Jeffrey J. Selingo December 16, 2016  Washington Post


College freshmen now regularly say the No. 1 reason to attend college is to “get a better job,” according to a major annual survey of incoming students conducted by UCLA. Before 2006, students told researchers that the top reason to go to college was to “learn about things that interest me.”


That college is seen as a training ground for a job is perceived by professors as anathema to their mission of broadly educating students. Most will tell you that their job is not to get their students a job after graduation. As a result, that responsibility is usually left to career centers, which typically are underfunded and often tucked away in a corner of campus that students don’t find until their senior year, if ever.



And for the most part, career centers are failing students, according to new research out this week from Gallup and Purdue University.


In a survey of more than 11,000 college graduates, the Gallup-Purdue Index found that fewer than half of recent graduates — those who graduated since 2010 — found the career center helpful or very helpful. And that’s just among the students who visited the career center at least once. Six in 10 recent graduates said they never visited the career office as an undergraduate.



Among the graduates of all years who said in the survey that career services were very helpful, 49 percent of them said that they had a good job waiting for them after graduation. Just 15 percent who said career services weren’t helpful said the same about their job prospects after graduation.



No wonder so many students are struggling to launch after college. Nearly half of new graduates are underemployed, working jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A study that was released last week found that the likelihood young adults will earn more than their parents has fallen dramatically in the past few decades. Just half of Americans born in 1984 earned more at age 30 than their parents did at the same age.



College officials will defend their career services by saying students share the responsibility in finding a good job after graduation, and they are certainly right in that assessment. Students find jobs in all kinds of ways, not just by visiting the career center. The Gallup survey found that 20 percent of students acquired an internship or job through a friend. Another half found their jobs through professors or other staff members on campus.


Such informal networks, often established for the first time in college, are the way many students find out about internships and jobs. It’s the reason students, and especially their parents, drive themselves crazy to get into Stanford or Harvard. It’s not because the education is so much better at those places; it’s because of the network students connect to, through the parents of their classmates, alumni, and eventually through the students themselves when they become alumni.



Navigating that network, however, is difficult for many students. Fewer than half of college seniors in the annual National Survey of Student Engagement, a poll of college freshmen and seniors, said they talked often with a faculty member about their career plans.


At selective colleges, students who lack social capital, particularly lower-income students, often find it tough to plug into a network. Affluent students typically can draw on family resources after college to make up for their weak academic records as undergraduates, according to a study of freshmen women at Indiana University that resulted in the 2013 book, Paying for the Party.



So while a group of elite colleges pledged this week to enroll 50,000 more low-income students in the coming decade, they will need to do more than just provide them the aid for tuition and living expenses. Those students will need help in navigating the informal campus networks, and in getting the internships during college that are of increasing importance for landing a good job afterward.



One way that colleges can better support low-income students in finding meaningful work is through the federal work-study program. The federal government picks up 75 percent of the cost of students in the program (with the colleges picking up the other 25 percent). But most of those jobs are on campus, and typically low-skill jobs, such as in the dining hall or as office assistants or working the desk at the recreation center — positions that usually don’t provide students with many marketable skills.



While there are some limitations, colleges can partner with off-campus employers and use work study funds to place students in jobs that will help their résumés. But colleges with tight budgets prefer to fill on-campus jobs with work-study students, and many financial-aid officials say they don’t have the time or the expertise to establish partnerships with off-campus employers.


The economy and the job market have evolved in ways that make the typical college playbook for preparing students for post-graduation no longer relevant. Graduates expect colleges to help them find jobs. Those in the Gallup-Purdue survey who said their career offices were helpful were three times more likely than those who didn’t to think their degrees were worth the price and two and half times more likely to donate to their schools.


Perhaps it’s that last finding that will finally persuade colleges — and even professors — that it’s part of their job to help students find jobs.

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We discussed how our US FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT stats went from showing a reasonable picture of our US labor employment when our US economy was booming BEFORE REAGAN era started sending our US corporation overseas.  Since REAGAN/CLINTON those US FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT STATS were being made by global banking 1% GLOBAL MITRE AND RAND CORPORATION bringing what was closely accurate Federal data to being JUKED DATA to be used as propaganda.  As with our national media myth-making on US unemployment these few decades---below we see myth-making with the DECLINE OF AMERICAN CHILDREN earning more than their parents.  Who is making these myth-making stats?  HARVARD AND STANFORD global hedge fund IVY LEAGUES.


'The Fading American Dream: Percent of Children Earning More than their Parents, by Year of Birth


Equality of Opportunity Project, 2016
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'Friedman - along with economists Raj Chetty at Stanford and Nathaniel Hendren at Harvard - started the Equality of Opportunity Project'

THE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY PROJECT headed by global banking 5 % players is FAKE NEWS.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that our US 99% went from GREAT DEPRESSION where a super-majority of US citizens were impoverished by global banking ROBBER BARON ROARING 20s' frauds-----to having each generation after earning more than their parents.  Even through 1980s and 90s-----it was REAGAN?CLINTON era that sent US corporation overseas to hand to OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS in mergers and acquisitions.

It is true these attacks on US 99% wealth started during CARTER 1970s in his union-busting and creation of FEDERAL ENERGY AGENCY that led to OIL AND GAS DEREGULATION AND CONSOLIDATION soaking 99% of WE THE PEOPLE for energy costs......but those numbers of US citizens hit were in the millions while our US population was reaching 300 million.


HECHINGERREPORT has always been a far-right global banking 1% corporate education media outlet here filling EDUCATION AND WEALTH STATS created by far-right wing global banking STANFORD, HARVARD, AND BROWN UNIVERSITY.....all myth-making and FAKE DATA. All this FAKE DATA is created to make it appear a US college education does nothing for 99% of black, white, and brown US citizens---


Lumina Foundation
April 23 at 1:42pm ·
Some colleges and universities are doing more to improve economic and social mobility. In this Educate podcast, APM Reports foreshadows its upcoming documentary on this topic, speaking with John Friedman, founder of Brown University's Equality of Opportunity Project.



Are America's colleges promoting social mobility?


Economists dig into the data to understand which schools are doing the most to help revive the American Dream.

April 23, 2018 | by Emily Hanford

Back in the 1980s, Derek Peterson was admitted to Stony Brook University in New York as part of a special program for low-income students who show potential but aren't fully prepared for college.


"There were a lot of people who said you're not going to be able to do it," he says. "The school is really tough."


But he did do it. Peterson graduated in 1988 with a degree in computer science and applied mathematics. Now he's a wealthy tech entrepreneur and he's setting up a scholarship at Stony Brook to honor his father, who never finished college.



Peterson is an example of someone who rose from modest means with the help of a college degree.


Stories of upward mobility were once a key feature of American life. Children born in the 1940s were almost guaranteed to grow up and earn more than their parents did.



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But upward mobility has stalled, according to Brown University economist John Friedman.


"By the time you get to when I was born in 1980, only 50 percent of kids earn more than their parents do," he says.

The Fading American Dream: Percent of Children Earning More than their Parents, by Year of Birth
Equality of Opportunity Project, 2016


We're working on a documentary about college and social mobility. Tell us your story. Did going to college change your social class? Listen for the documentary on the podcast and on public radio stations nationwide beginning August 2018.


Friedman - along with economists Raj Chetty at Stanford and Nathaniel Hendren at Harvard - started the Equality of Opportunity Project to try to figure out what has led to the erosion of the American Dream, and how it can be revived. One of the things they're investigating is the role of higher education. In particular, they want to know which colleges in America are doing the most to promote upward mobility.



They examined millions of anonymous tax forms and financial aid records covering everyone who went to college in the United States between 1999 and 2013. They're now looking at the family income of every student before they went to college, and again when they are in their 30s. With this data, Friedman and his colleagues have created a mobility report card for every college. A college's mobility rate is defined as the percentage of students who come from the lowest income families (the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution) and make it to the top (the highest 20 percent).

It turns out Stony Brook University, where Peterson went, is one of the best colleges in America when it comes to promoting mobility.


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'The State of Maryland is now accepting applications for its BOOST scholarship program for the 2018-19 school year! Now in its third year, the BOOST Program awards scholarships to income-eligible K-12 students to be used for attendance at any eligible nonpublic school'.

As private schools are made CHARTER SCHOOLS---like BRYN MAWR, BOYS LATIN, et al we KNOW what are being called CHARTERS will morph into GLOBAL CORPORATE CAMPUS SCHOOLS----no religion---no strong US public education.

MARYLAND and BALTIMORE always escape those national maps showing MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE march to ending US public education but we are totally captured by these global banking 1% corporate school structures.


NO BOOST happening here for our US low-income or any other US 99% WE THE PEOPLE.




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Application Information



The State of Maryland is now accepting applications for its BOOST scholarship program for the 2018-19 school year! Now in its third year, the BOOST Program awards scholarships to income-eligible K-12 students to be used for attendance at any eligible nonpublic school. Additionally, a portion of BOOST funding will be directed for higher scholarships to assist students with special needs. This year, there’s $7.6 million available, so please apply!



Who’s eligible for BOOST Scholarships?



• Public school students, as well as current nonpublic school students.
• Students whose family incomes are at or below the following (include all members of household in count):



  • Family of 2: $30,044
  • Family of 3: $37,777
  • Family of 4: $45,510
  • Family of 5: $53,243





Click below to apply for BOOST through the State of MarylandThe 2018-2019 school year application through the State Department of Education is now available.




The application deadline for the 2018-19 school year will be May 21, 2018, at 5:00 p.m.
Please visit www.marylandpublicschools.org/boost to apply.
Por favor visite www.marylandpublicschools.org/boost para aplicar.




**PLEASE NOTE that this website is put forth by the nonprofit BOOST Coalition to direct parents toward the application and other information through the Maryland State Department of Education, which official administers the scholarship program for the State. The link above will take you to the official application.

2018-2019 BOOST Income Eligibility Guidelines


Click here to see if your family meets the income threshold to receive a BOOST scholarship award.

Eligible Participating SchoolsA list of eligible participating schools for 2018-2019 through the Maryland State Department of Education can be found here.

BOOST Coalition · email: info@EducationMaryland.org · phone: 443-510-4501

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No US state is being hit harder by RACE TO THE TOP and COMMONER CORE global banking 1% attack on our US public education K-UNIVERSITY than WISCONSIN. It has long been global banking CLINTON NEO-LIBERAL capture of our DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Here we have that EDUCATION CANDIDATE as DEMOCRAT-----she is tied to SCHOOL BOARD-----yet we cannot find ANYWHERE in her campaign discussion of education the goals of STOPPING MOVING FORWARD----the goals of STOPPING RACE TO TOP/COMMONER CORE----the goals of getting global banking 1% out of our government by ending the designation of US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.

We have discussed often how our US AFT---WEINGARTEN et al as 5% global banking players as labor union leaders are partnered with global banking. This is why in US we do not have protests against GORILLA-IN-THE-ROOM education public policy. Please do not follow those 5% global banking freemason/Greek labor leaders----

LET'S JUST GET RID OF ALL GLOBAL BANKING POLS AND PLAYERS-----


Vote 2008



Cathy Myers launches teachers, students program to mobilize voters
  • The Wisconsin Gazette
  • Apr 25, 2018 Updated Apr 25, 2018

Cathy Myers, a Janesville School Board Member and Democrat running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 1st District, announced the launch of Teachers and Students for Cathy.



The program, which will employ students and teachers as summer organizers, is the campaign’s newest initiative to mobilize and engage voters in the district now represented by House Speaker Paul Ryan.


Myers faces Randy Bryce in the Democratic primary set for August.

“As a parent, and a teacher, I know that our public education system is crucially important -- and now, it’s under repeated attacks by Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos," Myers said in a news release. "I’m running for Congress to bring an educator’s perspective to the halls of the Capitol and protect public education from the Trump administration’s shameful attacks."
She added, “I’m thrilled to have the support of teachers and students in Wisconsin’s 1st District, and I know that their perspective is invaluable. That’s why I’m relying on them to help us carry this campaign across the finish line.”


Teachers and Students for Cathy is being launched teachers in multiple locations in the United States are striking to demand fair wages, decent working conditions and quality education for all students.


Myers previously organized her union’s strike center during a teachers’ strike at her school.

As part of Teachers and Students for Cathy, the campaign will pay organizers a living wage, provide housing and work with teachers and students to provide the resources, skills and training they need win elections .
Myers herself is a single mother of two and 24-year veteran high school teacher who is serving a second term on the Janesville School Board.

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Here are those GLOBAL BANKING 1% FREEMASON STARS-----the MOODY BLUES----singing our favorite hits in the 1960s. Without coincidence they are singing about those KNIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN---those OLD WORLD GLOBAL % KINGS AND QUEENS KNIGHTS OF MALTA----this being early US 1960s just after EISENHOWER AVIATION ACT attaching all our US Federal agencies to a foreign sovereignty MITRE CORPORATION/RAND CORPORATION.
NEVER REACHING THE END ======endless wars tied to the United States being driven by global banking 1% MALTA making America looking like the DESPOTS.
REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES back in 1960s---70s---80s were educating just as we are today against global banking MOVING FORWARD goals of ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%.

Sadly, these global banking 1% freemason/Greek STARS are only living for today----SHOW ME THE MONEY--not caring what society will look like for our children and grandchildren----thinking they are WINNERS.
It took the 1970s and NIXON opening CHINA to bring MOVING FORWARD to fully speed beginning the sending of US corporations overseas and into the hands of GLOBAL BANKING 1% KINGS AND QUEENS.


AMERICA'S SECRET WAR????? OH, REALLY???????

Notice that global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE COLUMBIA 5% media giving US and global 99% FAKE NEWS.


Dean Vali Nasr cordially invites you to


A conversation on Directorate S:

The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan


With
Steve Coll
Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
Dean & Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism, Columbia University School of Journalism



The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
One of the first official videos of "Nights In White Satin" in 1967. "Nights" in Paris. A timeless song. http://go.magik.ly/ml/5sra/ htt…
youtube.com



Nights in white satin, never reaching the end,
Letters I've written, never meaning to send
Beauty I've always missed, with these eyes before
Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore

'Cos I love you, yes I love you, oh how I love you

Gazing at people, some hand in hand
Just what I'm going through they can't understand

Some try to tell me, thoughts they cannot defend
Just what you want to be, you will be in the end


And I love you, yes I love you
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you

Nights in white satin, never reaching the end
Letters I've written, never meaning to send
Beauty I've always missed, with these eyes before
Just what the truth is, I can't say anymore

'Cos I love you, yes I love you
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you
'Cos I love you, yes I love you
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you

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We will end this week's discussion of education public policy by returning to LOVETT'S LOST BOOK OF HOLY GRAIL and how GLOBAL GOOGLE'S digitization of all books globally so only the global 1% will be able to access these books of knowledge needed to understand REAL INFORMATION AND make the clearest pathway to REAL HISTORY------is being sold by those 5% players black, white, and brown citizens as being DEMOCRATIZING-----OPENING OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL 99% US AND GLOBAL WE THE PEOPLE.


Obviously that is not true----it is myth-making and propaganda.


What is MOVING FORWARD is consolidation of all the world's most important books, academic writings et al into ONE WORLD ONE DIGITAL LIBRARY for only the global 1%. As with that SEED BANK VAULT holding the pre-GMO seeds from around the world --only accessible by those dastardly global 1% OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS----so too this is the goal of GLOBAL GOOGLE DIGITALIZATION OF ALL BOOKS.


Being educated by global COMMONER CORE online lessons written by global banking 1% having no access to BOOKS----not good for our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, or brown citizens AND our 99% new immigrant citizens


NOBODY wins when our citizens' voices are allowed to be silenced------our 99% right wing citizens lose as well as our 99% left wing citizens....those 15th generation second removed on their father's side 5% players---going under the bus as well.

COME TOGETHER AS THAT 99% VS GLOBAL 1% ----LET'S JUST DO IT.

This is a long article---but please glance through--



Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

  • James Somers
  • Apr 20, 2017  THE ATLANTIC

You were going to get one-click access to the full text of nearly every book that’s ever been published. Books still in print you’d have to pay for, but everything else—a collection slated to grow larger than the holdings at the Library of Congress, Harvard, the University of Michigan, at any of the great national libraries of Europe--would have been available for free at terminals that were going to be placed in every local library that wanted one.



At the terminal you were going to be able to search tens of millions of books and read every page of any book you found. You’d be able to highlight passages and make annotations and share them; for the first time, you’d be able to pinpoint an idea somewhere inside the vastness of the printed record, and send somebody straight to it with a link. Books would become as instantly available, searchable, copy-pasteable—as alive in the digital world—as web pages.



It was to be the realization of a long-held dream. “The universal library has been talked about for millennia,” Richard Ovenden, the head of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, has said. “It was possible to think in the Renaissance that you might be able to amass the whole of published knowledge in a single room or a single institution.” In the spring of 2011, it seemed we’d amassed it in a terminal small enough to fit on a desk.


“This is a watershed event and can serve as a catalyst for the reinvention of education, research, and intellectual life,” one eager observer wrote at the time.
On March 22 of that year, however, the legal agreement that would have unlocked a century’s worth of books and peppered the country with access terminals to a universal library was rejected under Rule 23(e)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.



When the library at Alexandria burned it was said to be an “international catastrophe.” When the most significant humanities project of our time was dismantled in court, the scholars, archivists, and librarians who’d had a hand in its undoing breathed a sigh of relief, for they believed, at the time, that they had narrowly averted disaster.
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Google’s secret effort to scan every book in the world, codenamed “Project Ocean,” began in earnest in 2002 when Larry Page and Marissa Mayer sat down in the office together with a 300-page book and a metronome. Page wanted to know how long it would take to scan more than a hundred-million books, so he started with one that was lying around. Using the metronome to keep a steady pace, he and Mayer paged through the book cover-to-cover. It took them 40 minutes.



Page had always wanted to digitize books. Way back in 1996, the student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was actually conceived as part of an effort “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library.” The idea was that in the future, once all books were digitized, you’d be able to map the citations among them, see which books got cited the most, and use that data to give better search results to library patrons. But books still lived mostly on paper. Page and his research partner, Sergey Brin, developed their popularity-contest-by-citation idea using pages from the World Wide Web.



By 2002, it seemed to Page like the time might be ripe to come back to books. With that 40-minute number in mind, he approached the University of Michigan, his alma mater and a world leader in book scanning, to find out what the state of the art in mass digitization looked like. Michigan told Page that at the current pace, digitizing their entire collection—7 million volumes—was going to take about a thousand years. Page, who’d by now given the problem some thought, replied that he thought Google could do it in six.



Every weekday, semi trucks full of books would pull up at designated Google scanning centers.He offered the library a deal: You let us borrow all your books, he said, and we’ll scan them for you. You’ll end up with a digital copy of every volume in your collection, and Google will end up with access to one of the great untapped troves of data left in the world. Brin put Google’s lust for library books this way: “You have thousands of years of human knowledge, and probably the highest-quality knowledge is captured in books.” What if you could feed all the knowledge that’s locked up on paper to a search engine?


Hmmmm, BRIN and ZUCKERBERG known to have done the tour to all GLOBAL BANKING HEDGE FUND IVY LEAGUES like Johns Hopkins?  Both ending up with control of ONE WORLD ONE TECHNOLOGY GRID---


By 2004, Google had started scanning. In just over a decade, after making deals with Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the New York Public Library, and dozens of other library systems, the company, outpacing Page’s prediction, had scanned about 25 million books. It cost them an estimated $400 million. It was a feat not just of technology but of logistics.



Every weekday, semi trucks full of books would pull up at designated Google scanning centers. The one ingesting Stanford’s library was on Google’s Mountain View campus, in a converted office building. The books were unloaded from the trucks onto the kind of carts you find in libraries and wheeled up to human operators sitting at one of a few dozen brightly lit scanning stations, arranged in rows about six to eight feet apart.



The stations—which didn’t so much scan as photograph books—had been custom-built by Google from the sheet metal up. Each one could digitize books at a rate of 1,000 pages per hour. The book would lie in a specially designed motorized cradle that would adjust to the spine, locking it in place. Above, there was an array of lights and at least $1,000 worth of optics, including four cameras, two pointed at each half of the book, and a range-finding LIDAR that overlaid a three-dimensional laser grid on the book’s surface to capture the curvature of the paper. The human operator would turn pages by hand—no machine could be as quick and gentle—and fire the cameras by pressing a foot pedal, as though playing at a strange piano.


What made the system so efficient is that it left so much of the work to software. Rather than make sure that each page was aligned perfectly, and flattened, before taking a photo, which was a major source of delays in traditional book-scanning systems, cruder images of curved pages were fed to de-warping algorithms, which used the LIDAR data along with some clever mathematics to artificially bend the text back into straight lines.


At its peak, the project involved about 50 full-time software engineers. They developed optical character-recognition software for turning raw images into text; they wrote de-warping and color-correction and contrast-adjustment routines to make the images easier to process; they developed algorithms to detect illustrations and diagrams in books, to extract page numbers, to turn footnotes into real citations, and, per Brin and Page’s early research, to rank books by relevance. “Books are not part of a network,” Dan Clancy, who was the engineering director on the project during its heyday, has said. “There is a huge research challenge, to understand the relationship between books.”



At a time when the rest of Google was obsessed with making apps more “social”—Google Plus was released in 2011—Books was seen by those who worked on it as one of those projects from the old era, like Search itself, that made good on the company’s mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”



It was the first project that Google ever called a “moonshot.” Before the self-driving car and Project Loon—their effort to deliver Internet to Africa via high-altitude balloons—it was the idea of digitizing books that struck the outside world as a wide-eyed dream. Even some Googlers themselves thought of the project as a boondoggle. “There were certainly lots of folks at Google that while we were doing Google Book Search were like, Why are we spending all this money on this project?,” Clancy said to me. “Once Google started being a little more conscious about how it was spending money, it was like, wait, you have $40 million a year, $50 million a year on the cost of scanning? It’s gonna cost us $300 to $400 million before we’re done? What are you thinking? But Larry and Sergey were big supporters.”


In August 2010, Google put out a blog post announcing that there were 129,864,880 books in the world. The company said they were going to scan them all.


Of course, it didn’t quite turn out that way. This particular moonshot fell about a hundred-million books short of the moon. What happened was complicated but how it started was simple: Google did that thing where you ask for forgiveness rather than permission, and forgiveness was not forthcoming. Upon hearing that Google was taking millions of books out of libraries, scanning them, and returning them as if nothing had happened, authors and publishers filed suit against the company, alleging, as the authors put it simply in their initial complaint, “massive copyright infringement.”
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When Google started scanning, they weren’t actually setting out to build a digital library where you could read books in their entirety; that idea would come later. Their original goal was just to let you search books. For books in copyright, all they would show you were “snippets,” just a few sentences of context around your search terms. They likened their service to a card catalog.


Google thought that creating a card catalog was protected by “fair use,” the same doctrine of copyright law that lets a scholar excerpt someone’s else’s work in order to talk about it. “A key part of the line between what’s fair use and what’s not is transformation,” Google’s lawyer, David Drummond, has said. “Yes, we’re making a copy when we digitize. But surely the ability to find something because a term appears in a book is not the same thing as reading the book. That’s why Google Books is a different product from the book itself.”



It was important for Drummond to be right. Statutory damages for “willful infringement” of a copyright can run as high as $150,000 for each work infringed. Google’s potential liability for copying tens of millions of books could have run into the trillions of dollars. “Google had some reason to fear that it was betting the firm on its fair-use defense,” Pamela Samuelson, a law professor at UC Berkeley, wrote in 2011. Copyright owners pounced.


They had good reason to. Instead of asking for anyone’s permission, Google had plundered libraries. This seemed obviously wrong: If you wanted to copy a book, you had to have the right to copy it—you had to have the damn copyright. Letting Google get away with the wholesale copying of every book in America struck them as setting a dangerous precedent, one that might well render their copyrights worthless. An advocacy group called the Authors Guild, and several book authors, filed a class action lawsuit against Google on behalf of everyone with a U.S. copyright interest in a book. (A group of publishers filed their own lawsuit but joined the Authors Guild class action shortly thereafter.)



There’s actually a long tradition of technology companies disregarding intellectual-property rights as they invent new ways to distribute content. In the early 1900s, makers of the “piano rolls” that control player pianos ignored copyrights in sheet music and were sued by music publishers. The same thing happened with makers of vinyl records and early purveyors of commercial radio. In the 60s, cable operators re-aired broadcast TV signals without first getting permission and found themselves in costly litigation. Movie studios sued VCR makers. Music labels sued KazaA and Napster.


As Tim Wu pointed out in a 2003 law review article, what usually becomes of these battles—what happened with piano rolls, with records, with radio, and with cable—isn’t that copyright holders squash the new technology. Instead, they cut a deal and start making money from it. Often this takes the form of a “compulsory license” in which, for example, musicians are required to license their work to the piano-roll maker, but in exchange, the piano-roll maker has to pay a fixed fee, say two cents per song, for every roll they produce. Musicians get a new stream of income, and the public gets to hear their favorite songs on the player piano. “History has shown that time and market forces often provide equilibrium in balancing interests,” Wu writes.



But even if everyone typically ends up ahead, each new cycle starts with rightsholders fearful they’re being displaced by the new technology. When the VCR came out, film executives lashed out. “I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone,” Jack Valenti, then the president of the MPAA, testified before Congress. The major studios sued Sony, arguing that with the VCR, the company was trying to build an entire business on intellectual property theft. But Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. became famous for its holding that as long as a copying device was capable of “substantial noninfringing uses”--like someone watching home movies—its makers couldn’t be held liable for copyright infringement.



“There was an opportunity to do something extraordinary for readers and academics in this country.”The Sony case forced the movie industry to accept the existence of VCRs. Not long after, they began to see the device as an opportunity. “The VCR turned out to be one of the most lucrative inventions—for movie producers as well as hardware manufacturers—since movie projectors,” one commentator put it in 2000.



It only took a couple of years for the authors and publishers who sued Google to realize that there was enough middle ground to make everyone happy. This was especially true when you focused on the back catalog, on out-of-print works, instead of books still on store shelves. Once you made that distinction, it was possible to see the whole project in a different light. Maybe Google wasn’t plundering anyone’s work. Maybe they were giving it a new life. Google Books could turn out to be for out-of-print books what the VCR had been for movies out of the theater.



If that was true, you wouldn’t actually want to stop Google from scanning out-of-print books—you’d want to encourage it. In fact, you’d want them to go beyond just showing snippets to actually selling those books as digital downloads. Out-of-print books, almost by definition, were commercial dead weight. If Google, through mass digitization, could make a new market for them, that would be a real victory for authors and publishers. “We realized there was an opportunity to do something extraordinary for readers and academics in this country,” Richard Sarnoff, who was then Chairman of the American Association of Publishers, said at the time. “We realized that we could light up the out-of-print backlist of this industry for two things: discovery and consumption.”



But once you had that goal in mind, the lawsuit itself—which was about whether Google could keep scanning and displaying snippets—began to seem small time. Suppose the Authors Guild won: they were unlikely to recoup anything more than the statutory minimum in damages; and what good would it do to stop Google from providing snippets of old books? If anything those snippets might drive demand. And suppose Google won: Authors and publishers would get nothing, and all readers would get for out-of-print books would be snippets—not access to full texts.

REMEMBER---THE WRITER'S GUILD IS TIED TO OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% TRADE GUILDS----THEY ARE THOSE 5% PLAYERS----THIS LAWSUIT IS NOT THE PUBLIC POLICY GORILLA FOR 99% WE THE PEOPLE.

The plaintiffs, in other words, had gotten themselves into a pretty unusual situation. They didn’t want to lose their own lawsuit—but they didn’t want to win it either.
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The basic problem with out-of-print books is that it’s unclear who owns most of them. An author might have signed a book deal with their publisher 40 years ago; that contract stipulated that the rights revert to the author after the book goes out of print, but required the author to send a notice to that effect, and probably didn’t say anything about digital rights; and all this was recorded on some pieces of paper that nobody has.



It’s been estimated that about half the books published between 1923 and 1963 are actually in the public domain—it’s just that no one knows which half. Copyrights back then had to be renewed, and often the rightsholder wouldn’t bother filing the paperwork; if they did, the paperwork could be lost. The cost of figuring out who owns the rights to a given book can end up being greater than the market value of the book itself. “To have people go and research each one of these titles,” Sarnoff said to me, “It’s not just Sisyphean—it’s an impossible task economically.” Most out-of-print books are therefore locked up, if not by copyright then by inconvenience.

THINK ABOUT THE LEGAL TERM OF 'PUBLIC DOMAIN'----IF GLOBAL GOOGLE DIGITIZES AND HARD BOOKS DISAPPEAR AND WE LOSE OUR ABILITY TO ACCESS INTERNET----IS THIS REALLY 'PUBLIC DOMAIN'?  PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE 'PUBLIC DOMAIN'.

The tipping point toward a settlement of Authors Guild v. Google was the realization that it offered a way to skirt this problem entirely. Authors Guild was a class action lawsuit, and the class included everyone who held an American copyright in one or more books. In a class action, the named plaintiffs litigate on behalf of the whole class (though anyone who wants to can opt out).



So a settlement of the Authors Guild case could theoretically bind just about every author and publisher with a book in an American library. In particular, you could craft a deal in which copyright owners, as a class, agreed to release any claims against Google for scanning and displaying their books, in exchange for a cut of the revenue on sales of those books.

CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BAD FOR 99% OF WE THE PEOPLE---THE LAWYERS WIN.  THESE POLICIES ALLOW CORPORATIONS TO CLOSE THE BOOK ON LEGAL ISSUES ---THIS ONE TIED TO DIGITIZING THE ENTIRE PUBLIC DOMAIN OF BOOKS----THIS WAS A 5% PLAYER WORKING FOR GLOBAL BANKING 1%.


“If you have a kind of an institutional problem,” said Jeff Cunard, a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton who represented the publishers in the case, “you can address the issue through a class-action settlement mechanism, which releases all past claims and develops a solution on a going-forward basis. And I think the genius here was of those who saw this as a way of addressing the problem of out-of-print books and liberating them from the dusty corners to which they’d been consigned.”



It was a kind of hack. If you could get the class on board with your settlement, and if you could convince a judge to approve it—a step required by law, because you want to make sure the class representatives are acting in the class’s best interests—then you could in one stroke cut the Gordian knot of ambiguous rights to old books. With the class action settlement, authors and publishers who stayed in the class would in effect be saying to Google, “go ahead.”


Naturally, they’d have to get something in return. And that was the clever part. At the heart of the settlement was a collective licensing regime for out-of-print books. Authors and publishers could opt out their books at any time. For those who didn’t, Google would be given wide latitude to display and sell their books, but in return, 63 percent of the revenues would go into escrow with a new entity called the Book Rights Registry. The Registry’s job would be to distribute funds to rightsholders as they came forward to claim their works; in ambiguous cases, part of the money would be used to figure out who actually owned the rights.


“Book publishing isn’t the healthiest industry in the world, and individual authors don’t make any money out of out-of-print books,” Cunard said to me. “Not that they would have made gazillions of dollars” with Google Books and the Registry, “but they would at least have been paid something for it. And most authors actually want their books to be read.”


What became known as the Google Books Search Amended Settlement Agreement came to 165 pages and more than a dozen appendices. It took two and a half years to hammer out the details. Sarnoff described the negotiations as “four-dimensional chess” between the authors, publishers, libraries, and Google. “Everyone involved,” he said to me, “and I mean everyone—on all sides of this issue—thought that if we were going to get this through, this would be the single most important thing they did in their careers.” Ultimately the deal put Google on the hook for about $125 million, including a one-time $45 million payout to the copyright holders of books it had scanned—something like $60 per book—along with $15.5 million in legal fees to the publishers, $30 million to the authors, and $34.5 million toward creating the Registry.



But it also set the terms for how out-of-print books, newly freed, would be displayed and sold. Under the agreement, Google would be able to preview up to 20 percent of a given book to entice individual users to buy, and it would be able to offer downloadable copies for sale, with the prices determined by an algorithm or by the individual rightsholder, in price bins initially ranging from $1.99 to $29.99. All the out-of-print books would be packaged into an “institutional subscription database” that would be sold to universities, where students and faculty could search and read the full collection for free. And in §4.8(a), the agreement describes in bland legalese the creation of an incomparable public utility, the “public-access service” that would be deployed on terminals to local libraries across the country.



Sorting out the details had taken years of litigation and then years of negotiation, but now, in 2011, there was a plan—a plan that seemed to work equally well for everyone at the table. As Samuelson, the Berkeley law professor, put it in a paper at the time, “The proposed settlement thus looked like a win-win-win: the libraries would get access to millions of books, Google would be able to recoup its investment in GBS, and authors and publishers would get a new revenue stream from books that had been yielding zero returns. And legislation would be unnecessary to bring about this result.”



In this, she wrote, it was “perhaps the most adventuresome class action settlement ever attempted.” But to her way of thinking, that was the very reason it should fail.
* * *
The publication of the Amended Settlement Agreement to the Authors Guild case was headline news. It was quite literally a big deal—a deal that would involve the shakeup of an entire industry. Authors, publishers, Google’s rivals, legal scholars, librarians, the U.S. government, and the interested public paid attention to the case’s every move. When the presiding judge, Denny Chin, put out a call for responses to the proposed settlement, responses came in droves.



Those who had been at the table crafting the agreement had expected some resistance, but not the “parade of horribles,” as Sarnoff described it, that they eventually saw. The objections came in many flavors, but they all started with the sense that the settlement was handing to Google, and Google alone, an awesome power. “Did we want the greatest library that would ever exist to be in the hands of one giant corporation, which could really charge almost anything it wanted for access to it?”, Robert Darnton, then president of Harvard’s library, has said.



Darnton had initially been supportive of Google’s scanning project, but the settlement made him wary. The scenario he and many others feared was that the same thing that had happened to the academic journal market would happen to the Google Books database. The price would be fair at first, but once libraries and universities became dependent on the subscription, the price would rise and rise until it began to rival the usurious rates that journals were charging, where for instance by 2011 a yearly subscription to the Journal of Comparative Neurology could cost as much as $25,910.



Although academics and library enthusiasts like Darnton were thrilled by the prospect of opening up out-of-print books, they saw the settlement as a kind of deal with the devil. Yes, it would create the greatest library there’s ever been—but at the expense of creating perhaps the largest bookstore, too, run by what they saw as a powerful monopolist. In their view, there had to be a better way to unlock all those books. “Indeed, most elements of the GBS settlement would seem to be in the public interest, except for the fact that the settlement restricts the benefits of the deal to Google,” the Berkeley law professor Pamela Samuelson wrote.



Certainly Google’s competitors felt put out by the deal. Microsoft, predictably, argued that it would further cement Google’s position as the world’s dominant search engine, by making it the only one that could legally mine out-of-print books. By using those books in results for user’s long-tail queries, Google would have an unfair advantage over competitors. Google’s response to this objection was simply that anyone could scan books and show them in search results if they wanted—and that doing so was fair use. (Earlier this year, a Second Circuit court ruled finally that Google’s scanning of books and display of snippets was, in fact, fair use.)



“There was this hypothesis that there was this huge competitive advantage,” Clancy said to me, regarding Google’s access to the books corpus. But he said that the data never ended up being a core part of any project at Google, simply because the amount of information on the web itself dwarfed anything available in books. “You don’t need to go to a book to know when Woodrow Wilson was born,” he said. The books data was helpful, and interesting for researchers, but “the degree to which the naysayers characterized this as being the strategic motivation for the whole project—that was malarkey.”

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 99% WE THE PEOPLE NO LONGER HAVE ACCESS TO INTERNET??????

Amazon, for its part, worried that the settlement allowed Google to set up a bookstore that no one else could. Anyone else who wanted to sell out-of-print books, they argued, would have to clear rights on a book-by-book basis, which was as good as impossible, whereas the class action agreement gave Google a license to all of the books at once.



This objection got the attention of the Justice Department, in particular the Antitrust division, who began investigating the settlement. In a statement filed with the court, the DOJ argued that the settlement would give Google a de facto monopoly on out-of-print books. That’s because for Google’s competitors to get the same rights to those books, they’d basically have to go through the exact same bizarre process: scan them en masse, get sued in a class action, and try to settle. “Even if there were reason to think history could repeat itself in this unlikely fashion,” the DOJ wrote, “it would scarcely be sound policy to encourage deliberate copyright violations and additional litigation.”


Google’s best defense was that the whole point of antitrust law was to protect consumers, and, as one of their lawyers put it, “From the perspective of consumers, one way to get something is unquestionably better than no way to get it at all.” Out-of-print books had been totally inaccessible online; now there’d be a way to buy them. How did that hurt consumers? A person closely involved in the settlement said to me, “Each of the publishers would go into the Antitrust Division and say well but look, Amazon has 80 percent of the e-book market. Google has 0 percent or 1 percent. This is allowing someone else to compete in the digital books space against Amazon. And so you should be regarding this as pro-competitive, not anti-competitive. Which seemed also very sensible to me. But it was like they were talking to a brick wall. And that reaction was shameful.”



The DOJ held fast. In some ways, the parties to the settlement didn’t have a good way out: no matter how “non-exclusive” they tried to make the deal, it was in effect a deal that only Google could get—because Google was the only defendant in the case. For a settlement in a class action titled Authors Guild v. Google to include not just Google but, say, every company that wanted to become a digital bookseller, would be to stretch the class action mechanism past its breaking point.



This was a point that the DOJ kept coming back to. The settlement was already a stretch, they argued: the original case had been about whether Google could show snippets of books it had scanned, and here you had a settlement agreement that went way beyond that question to create an elaborate online marketplace, one that depended on the indefinite release of copyrights by authors and publishers who might be difficult to find, particularly for books long out of print. “It is an attempt,” they wrote, “to use the class-action mechanism to implement forward-looking business arrangements that go far beyond the dispute before the Court in this litigation.”



The DOJ objections left the settlement in a double bind: Focus the deal on Google and you get accused of being anticompetitive. Try to open it up and you get accused of stretching the law governing class actions.



The lawyers who had crafted the settlement tried to thread the needle. The DOJ acknowledged as much. “The United States recognizes that the parties to the ASA are seeking to use the class action mechanism to overcome legal and structural challenges to the emergence of a robust and diverse marketplace for digital books,” they wrote. “Despite this worthy goal, the United States has reluctantly concluded that use of the class-action mechanism in the manner proposed by the ASA is a bridge too far.”


Their argument was compelling, but the fact that the settlement was ambitious didn’t mean it was illegal—just unprecedented. Years later, another class-action settlement that involved opt-out, “forward-looking business arrangements” very similar to the kind set up by the Google settlement was approved by another district court. That case involved the prospective exploitation of publicity rights of retired NFL players; the settlement made those rights available to an entity that would license them and distribute the proceeds. “What was interesting about it,” says Cunard, who was also involved in that litigation, “was that not a single opponent of the settlement ever raised Judge Chin’s decision or any of the oppositions to it with respect to that settlement being ‘beyond the scope of the pleadings.’” Had that case been decided ten years ago, Cunard said, it would have been “a very important and substantial precedent,” significantly undercutting the “bridge too far” argument against the Authors Guild agreement. “It demonstrates that the law is a very fluid thing,” he said. “Somebody’s got to be first.”



In the end, the DOJ’s intervention likely spelled the end of the settlement agreement. No one is quite sure why the DOJ decided to take a stand instead of remaining neutral. Dan Clancy, the Google engineering lead on the project who helped design the settlement, thinks that it was a particular brand of objector—not Google’s competitors but “sympathetic entities” you’d think would be in favor of it, like library enthusiasts, academic authors, and so on—that ultimately flipped the DOJ. “I don’t know how the settlement would have transpired if those naysayers hadn’t been so vocal,” he told me. “It’s not clear to me that if the libraries and the Bob Darntons and the Pam Samuelsons of the world hadn’t been so active that the Justice Department ever would have become involved, because it just would have been Amazon and Microsoft bitching about Google. Which is like yeah, tell me something new.”

JUST HOW MUCH OF US LIBRARY AND UNIVERSITY BOOK ASSETS DID GOOGLE SCAN BEFORE THIS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT BECAUSE IT SEEMS THEY HAD TIME TO DIGITIZE MOST OF US BOOK ASSETS BEFORE THESE DOJ LEGAL RULINGS.

Whatever the motivation, the DOJ said its piece and that seemed to carry the day. In his ruling concluding that the settlement was not “fair, adequate, and reasonable” under the rules governing class actions, Judge Denny Chin recited the DOJ’s objections and suggested that to fix them, you’d either have to change the settlement to be an opt-in arrangement—which would render it toothless—or try to accomplish the same thing in Congress.



“While the digitization of books and the creation of a universal digital library would benefit many,” Chin wrote in his decision, “the ASA would simply go too far.”
* * *
At the close of the “fairness hearing,” where people spoke for and against the settlement, Judge Chin asked, as if merely out of curiosity, just how many objections had there been? And how many people had opted out of the class? The answers were more than 500, and more than 6,800.



Reasonable people could disagree about the legality of the settlement; there were strong arguments on either side, and it was by no means obvious to observers which side Judge Chin was going to come down on. What seemed to turn the tide against the settlement was the reaction of the class itself. “In my more than twenty-five years of practice in class action litigation, I’ve never seen a settlement reacted to that way, with that many objectors,” said Michael Boni, who was the lead negotiator for the authors class in the case. That strong reaction was what likely led to the DOJ’s intervention; it turned public opinion against the agreement; and it may have led Chin to look for ways to kill it. After all, the question before him was whether the agreement was fair to class members. The more class members came out of the woodwork, and the more upset they seemed to be, the more reason he’d have to think that the settlement didn’t represent their interests.




The irony is that so many people opposed the settlement in ways that suggested they fundamentally believed in what Google was trying to do. One of Pamela Samuelson’s main objections was that Google was going to be able to sell books like hers, whereas she thought they should be made available for free. (The fact that she, like any author under the terms of the settlement, could set her own books’ price to zero was not consolation enough, because “orphan works” with un-findable authors would still be sold for a price.) In hindsight, it looks like the classic case of perfect being the enemy of the good: surely having the books made available at all would be better than keeping them locked up—even if the price for doing so was to offer orphan works for sale. In her paper concluding that the settlement went too far, Samuelson herself even wrote, “It would be a tragedy not to try to bring this vision to fruition, now that it is so evident that the vision is realizable.”



“This is not important enough for the Congress to somehow adjust copyright law.”Many of the objectors indeed thought that there would be some other way to get to the same outcome without any of the ickiness of a class action settlement. A refrain throughout the fairness hearing was that releasing the rights of out-of-print books for mass digitization was more properly “a matter for Congress.” When the settlement failed, they pointed to proposals by the U.S. Copyright Office recommending legislation that seemed in many ways inspired by it, and to similar efforts in the Nordic countries to open up out-of-print books, as evidence that Congress could succeed where the settlement had failed.


Of course, nearly a decade later, nothing of the sort has actually happened. “It has got no traction,” Cunard said to me about the Copyright Office’s proposal, “and is not going to get a lot of traction now I don’t think.” Many of the people I spoke to who were in favor of the settlement said that the objectors simply weren’t practical-minded—they didn’t seem to understand how things actually get done in the world. “They felt that if not for us and this lawsuit, there was some other future where they could unlock all these books, because Congress would pass a law or something. And that future... as soon as the settlement with Guild, nobody gave a shit about this anymore,” Clancy said to me.



It certainly seems unlikely that someone is going to spend political capital—especially today—trying to change the licensing regime for books, let alone old ones. “This is not important enough for the Congress to somehow adjust copyright law,” Clancy said. “It’s not going to get anyone elected. It’s not going to create a whole bunch of jobs.” It’s no coincidence that a class action against Google turned out to be perhaps the only plausible venue for this kind of reform: Google was the only one with the initiative, and the money, to make it happen. “If you want to look at this in a raw way,” Allan Adler, in-house counsel for the publishers, said to me, “a deep pocketed, private corporate actor was going to foot the bill for something that everyone wanted to see.” Google poured resources into the project, not just to scan the books but to dig up and digitize old copyright records, to negotiate with authors and publishers, to foot the bill for a Books Rights Registry. Years later, the Copyright Office has gotten nowhere with a proposal that re-treads much the same ground, but whose every component would have to be funded with Congressional appropriations.

HMMMMM, IS NOT TRANS PACIFIC TRADE PACT NOTHING BUT COPYRIGHT LAW?  OH, WE SEE WHAT IS MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE RULING.


I asked Bob Darnton, who ran Harvard’s library during the Google Books litigation and who spoke out against the settlement, whether he had any regrets about what ended up happening. “Insofar as I have a regret, it is that the attempts to out-Google Google are so limited by copyright law,” he said. He’s been working on another project to scan library books; the scanning has been limited to books in the public domain. “I’m in favor of copyright, don’t get me wrong, but really to leave books out of the public domain for more than a century--to keep most American literature behind copyright barrier,” he said, “I think is crazy.”

BUT ISN'T THE GOAL OF GLOBAL BANKING % TO DO JUST THAT FOREVER MR HARVARD BOB DARNTON?




The first copyright statute in the United States, passed in 1790, was called An Act for the Encouragement of Learning. Copyright terms were to last fourteen years, with the option to renew for another fourteen, but only if the author was alive at the end of the first term. The idea was to strike a “pragmatic bargain” between authors and the reading public. Authors would get a limited monopoly on their work so they could make a living from it; but their work would retire quickly into the public domain.



Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.
Copyright terms have been radically extended in this country largely to keep pace with Europe, where the standard has long been that copyrights last for the life of the author plus 50 years. But the European idea, “It’s based on natural law as opposed to positive law,” Lateef Mtima, a copyright scholar at Howard University Law School, said. “Their whole thought process is coming out of France and Hugo and those guys that like, you know, ‘My work is my enfant,’” he said, “and the state has absolutely no right to do anything with it--kind of a Lockean point of view.” As the world has flattened, copyright laws have converged, lest one country be at a disadvantage by freeing its intellectual products for exploitation by the others. And so the American idea of using copyright primarily as a vehicle, per the constitution, “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,” not to protect authors, has eroded to the point where today we’ve locked up nearly every book published after 1923.

HERE IS GLOBAL BANKING 1% IVY LEAGUE HEDGE FUND HOWARD UNIVERSITY PRETENDING IT IS PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS ----SAYING THE WORLD IS FLAT AND LOCKEAN POINT OF VIEW ---I AM MAN-----FORGET ABOUT IT. 

HOWARD UNIVERSITY LAW SAYS FORGET I AM MAN.



“The greatest tragedy is we are still exactly where we were on the orphan works question. That stuff is just sitting out there gathering dust and decaying in physical libraries, and with very limited exceptions,” Mtima said, “nobody can use them. So everybody has lost and no one has won.”

WHY MTIMA DO YOU THINK NO ONE CAN USE THEM?????



After the settlement failed, Clancy told me that at Google “there was just this air let out of the balloon.” Despite eventually winning Authors Guild v. Google, and having the courts declare that displaying snippets of copyrighted books was fair use, the company all but shut down its scanning operation.



It was strange to me, the idea that somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25-million books and nobody is allowed to read them. It’s like that scene at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie where they put the Ark of the Covenant back on a shelf somewhere, lost in the chaos of a vast warehouse. It’s there. The books are there. People have been trying to build a library like this for ages—to do so, they’ve said, would be to erect one of the great humanitarian artifacts of all time—and here we’ve done the work to make it real and we were about to give it to the world and now, instead, it’s 50 or 60 petabytes on disk, and the only people who can see it are half a dozen engineers on the project who happen to have access because they’re the ones responsible for locking it up.


I asked someone who used to have that job, what would it take to make the books viewable in full to everybody? I wanted to know how hard it would have been to unlock them. What’s standing between us and a digital public library of 25 million volumes?



You’d get in a lot of trouble, they said, but all you’d have to do, more or less, is write a single database query. You’d flip some access control bits from off to on. It might take a few minutes for the command to propagate.
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When left social progressives knew the Eisenhower Act of 1958 handed control of US Federal agencies to the foreign sovereignty of MALTA with global corporations like MITRE AND RAND CORPORATION we knew that was where to look for US human resources hiring----and that employment would be tied to which college graduates were hired.  This was in 1970-80s-----

We discussed how our US IVY LEAGUE university status went from those original northeastern colleges of PRINCETON, COLUMBIA. YALE, HARVARD to an expansion of that term IVY LEAGUE to more and more US universities.  We knew our US government from local, state, and Federal levels had always been filled with US 99% WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens and NOT IVY LEAGUE grads because government pay was middle-class while IVY LEAGUE grads have always gone for global banking corporate salaries---always higher.  What we saw when MALTA took control of our US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT hiring was that shift away from hiring from our US public universities towards that of IVY LEAGUE CORPORATE UNIVERSITIES.  It is no coincidence that a national news media began RANKING COLLEGES at that same time----US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT.

This college ranking had nothing to do with quality of education---it was tied to global banking 1% hiring graduates from those colleges.  We see below a good discussion of these COLLEGE RANKINGS started in REAGAN era 1983------the goal was to shift hiring from our US public university grads to those private and newly deemed IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES.



Again, these colleges were not becoming stronger in education quality-----they were being made global corporate R and D departments ----PRODUCT PATENTING MILLS----that is the opposite of strong US public higher education.

1983---REAGAN ERA------US COLLEGE RANKINGS changed from providing strong public higher education to being corporate product patenting mills.


How did the US News & World Report college rankings come to dominate the way people evaluate colleges?


Ty Doyle, a lawyer with an opinion on everything


Answered Apr 9 2014 ·


Two things:  being there first and the illusion of certainty.  US News began publishing ratings in 1983, roughly 15 years before Baby Boomers' children started going to college in big numbers.  Thus, even before getting into selective colleges became a competitive sport, US News was there and making a name for itself.  Other rankings existed, but they tended to rank based on (sensible) categories like "best schools for people who like _____".  US News purports to simply tell people which schools are best, period, and by getting there before anyone else, it became an authority, for better or worse.

This leads to the second reason.  US News is popular for the same reason that Pitchfork's music reviews are popular:  false detail.  Most people will agree, for example, that the latest album from Arcade Fire is better than the last album from Ashlee Simpson, but how and why this is true is complicated and difficult to explain.  Pitchfork, however, purports to tell you, down to a decimal place, which albums are good or bad.  There is no real explanation as to why one album is 8.3 and another is 7.9, but that's the way it is.  Right or wrong, the certainty of the reviews is both helpful and controversial; either way, it makes the site popular.

With colleges, most people similarly agree that Harvard is better than the University of New Mexico, but how much better, and why?  And is Harvard better than Stanford?  Than MIT?  Again, the answers to these questions are complicated, and there's no "right" answer.  US News is less of a black box than Pitchfork, but it still takes a formula that it creates--containing a number of questionable factors--runs data, and then purports to tell readers which schools are the "best," based on a 100-point scale.  Is there really a difference between a 99.8 school and a 99.2?  Is there even a material difference between a 99.8 school and an 85.0 school?  Again, that's debatable.  But for people who are stressed out about college and cannot possibly research dozens of schools with the necessary level of detail, the data is educational ("I didn't know X school was that high/low"), aids in decision-making ("School X is 3 spots better than School Y, so I'm going there"), and is controversial ("How can my rival be 7 spots higher than my alma mater?").  US News doesn't care whether you regard their rankings as gospel or snake oil, all they care about is that you pay for them.  And given that data (and often the US News formula) change from year to year, there will always be a reason for those who care about college rankings to read.

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If US citizens followed from 1983 these US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT we would see which colleges were being made LOSERS AND WINNERS by global banking 1%.  Our US public universities had never worked for global banking.  They were state universities or private colleges providing graduates to work in our local communities as business and government leaders.  This is when we went from government by the 99% WE THE PEOPLE----to government by global banking 5% players often graduates from what these college rankings deemed our BEST US COLLEGES.

'U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking
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In 1983, U.S. News & World Report published its first "America's Best Colleges" report. The rankings have been compiled and published annually since 1985 and are the most widely quoted of their kind in the United States. These rankings are based upon data that U.S. News & World Report collects from each educational institution from an annual survey sent to each school. The rankings are also based upon opinion surveys of university faculties and administrators who do not belong to the schools'.




It was REAGAN-era when what was called IVY LEAGUE expanded to what we see in these rankings.  These were not OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% IVY LEAGUES----these were colleges and universities tied to creating those 5% ROBBER BARON players.  It was no coincidence again that those colleges and universities ranked highest were saturated with GREEK CULTURE.  We see some of our US public universities being made those new IVY LEAGUES------this was what REAGAN/CLINTON neo-liberalism used to kill strong public K-university creating the societal FAD of GREEKS in those colleges once graduating our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE to be community and small/regional business leaders.

Those colleges ranked highest were not necessarily the BEST in public education---they were simply tapped global banking 1% as a pipeline in expanding EMPIRE of Foreign Economic Zones globally.  This was the beginning of the US AND THEM----those 5% freemason/Greek players vs our 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE.

So, now these college rankings were being used as the reason to send FEDERAL FUNDING for R and D away from our US state universities where it had gone in modern history ----to those ranked highest by global banking 1%.  This policy was what WEAKENED our US state and local colleges and universities ----and made those private and IVY LEAGUE universities FAT CATS.


This was when the US went from MERITOCRACY-------to CRONY NEPOTISM-----those 5% players not being the most qualified----but connected to OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS.


This is what created the ME GENERATION of those 5% to the 1% global banking players.



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Our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE have been duped with these Federal unemployment figures for these few decades. As REAGAN/CLINTON era shifted employment to OLD WORLD MALTA as human resources-----those US citizens not tied to US colleges ranked by US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT were of course those losing their jobs earliest. Even today, those US college grads left unemployed after graduating are those not tied to expanded IVY LEAGUE private/corporate colleges. This is how global banking 1% cleared our Federal, state, and local government agencies of 99% WE THE PEOPLE ----to those of 5% global banking players so quickly-----in only a few decades we had those ROBBER BARON 5% global banking pols and players.



Since the 1980s REAGAN era these Federal unemployment stats have been SKEWED------these stats used to be tied to our Federal unemployment checks-----when our US economy was FREE MARKET, domestic, and thriving------any US citizen losing a job found one within a few months----before unemployment checks ended. So, unemployment in US did parallel these FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES. In 1980s -1990s REAGAN/CLINTON with soaring US employment removing 99% WE THE PEOPLE from jobs ----those Federal unemployment figures started to be PROPAGANDA hiding the real US employment status.



THIS IS WHEN FULL EMPLOYMENT OF 4% BECAME FAKE. Here we see the WORLD BANK UNITED NATIONS telling us we have full employment when US 99% WE THE PEOPLE are long-term unemployed to over 50% MOVING FORWARD to 80%. We can follow college graduation to those US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT rankings---to see from where what are 20% falling to 5% of US citizens employed attended university.

Keep in mind all these world nations tied to being FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES are receiving these same SKEWED employment data-----hiring globally being tied to ever-smaller grouping of global IVY LEAGUE private corporate universities----





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1991
2017
Afghanistan
12.0
8.8
Albania
22.3
13.9
Algeria
20.6
10.0
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
23.6
8.2
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
5.6
8.7
Armenia
2.0
18.2
Aruba
Australia
9.6
5.7
Austria
3.4
5.5
Azerbaijan
8.9
5.0
Bahamas, The
12.2
12.6
Bahrain
6.3
1.3
Bangladesh
2.2
4.4
Barbados
23.0
9.7
Belarus
0.8
0.5
Belgium
7.0
7.4
Belize
3.8
7.6
Benin
1.5
2.5
Bermuda
Bhutan
1.4
2.4
Bolivia
5.9
3.1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
17.5
25.6
Botswana
13.8
18.1
Brazil
10.1
12.9
British Virgin Islands
Brunei Darussalam
4.7
7.1
Bulgaria
21.2
6.3
Burkina Faso
2.6
6.3
Burundi
1.6
1.6
Cabo Verde
11.8
10.3
Cambodia
0.9
0.2
Cameroon
8.0
4.3
Canada
10.3
6.4
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
6.2
6.0
Chad
5.4
5.9
Channel Islands
11.3
9.4
Chile
5.2
7.0
China
4.9
4.7
Colombia
10.1
9.0
Comoros
4.8
4.3
Congo, Dem. Rep.
3.6
3.7
Congo, Rep.
20.5
10.9
Costa Rica
5.4
8.5
Cote d'Ivoire
6.7
2.6
Croatia
11.1
10.8
Cuba
9.7
2.6
Curacao
Cyprus
2.8
10.8
Czech Republic
2.3
3.1
Denmark
9.1
5.8
Djibouti
6.9
5.8
Dominica
Dominican Republic
7.6
5.5
Ecuador
5.8
4.8
Egypt, Arab Rep.
9.6
12.1
El Salvador
7.5
4.5
Equatorial Guinea
5.7
6.9
Eritrea
6.7
6.4
Estonia
1.5
6.8
Ethiopia
3.1
5.2
Faroe Islands
Fiji
5.9
6.3
Finland
6.5
8.7
France
9.1
9.7
French Polynesia
13.9
20.8
Gabon
17.7
19.6
Gambia, The
9.1
9.4
Georgia
9.7
11.5
Germany
5.3
3.7
Ghana
4.7
2.4
Gibraltar
Greece
7.7
21.4
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
3.5
5.4
Guatemala
3.2
2.7
Guinea
4.5
4.5
Guinea-Bissau
6.4
6.1
Guyana
12.5
11.8
Haiti
7.6
14.0
Honduras
4.6
4.5
Hong Kong SAR, China
1.8
3.2
Hungary
9.8
4.3
Iceland
2.5
2.9
India
3.8
3.5
Indonesia
2.6
4.3
Iran, Islamic Rep.
11.1
13.1
Iraq
17.6
8.2
Ireland
15.8
6.4
Isle of Man
Israel
13.4
4.3
Italy
10.1
11.3
Jamaica
15.7
12.4
Japan
2.1
2.8
Jordan
19.9
14.9
Kazakhstan
1.1
4.9
Kenya
10.2
11.5
Kiribati
Korea, Dem. People’s Rep.
8.1
4.8
Korea, Rep.
2.4
3.8
Kosovo
Kuwait
0.7
2.1
Kyrgyz Republic
5.5
7.3
Lao PDR
2.6
0.7
Latvia
20.0
9.1
Lebanon
9.1
6.3
Lesotho
36.4
27.2
Liberia
5.6
2.4
Libya
20.2
17.7
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
17.6
7.1
Luxembourg
1.5
5.7
Macao SAR, China
3.0
2.0
Macedonia, FYR
36.0
22.9
Madagascar
5.8
1.8
Malawi
7.7
6.0
Malaysia
3.8
3.4
Maldives
0.8
5.0
Mali
3.1
7.9
Malta
6.4
4.3
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
9.8
10.2
Mauritius
10.1
7.2
Mexico
3.0
3.5
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
Moldova
8.5
4.5
Monaco
Mongolia
9.6
7.0
Montenegro
29.5
16.0
Morocco
17.3
9.3
Mozambique
25.1
25.0
Myanmar
0.9
0.8
Namibia
19.1
23.3
Nauru
Nepal
4.4
2.7
Netherlands
7.3
4.9
New Caledonia
19.0
14.8
New Zealand
10.6
4.9
Nicaragua
14.4
4.4
Niger
5.0
0.3
Nigeria
5.3
7.0
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
5.4
4.2
Oman
18.5
16.0
Pakistan
5.8
4.0
Palau
Panama
16.1
5.6
Papua New Guinea
3.0
2.7
Paraguay
5.1
5.8
Peru
5.9
3.7
Philippines
3.8
2.8
Poland
13.0
5.0
Portugal
3.9
9.0
Puerto Rico
16.2
11.7
Qatar
3.9
0.2
Romania
8.1
5.2
Russian Federation
5.7
5.2
Rwanda
0.3
1.3
Samoa
2.1
8.2
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
14.4
13.4
Saudi Arabia
7.9
5.7
Senegal
5.7
4.8
Serbia
12.6
14.1
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
3.4
4.5
Singapore
2.2
2.0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovak Republic
12.2
7.9
Slovenia
7.1
6.9
Solomon Islands
2.2
2.0
Somalia
5.9
6.0
South Africa
29.4
27.7
South Sudan
11.9
11.5
Spain
15.9
17.4
Sri Lanka
14.7
4.1
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
17.8
21.0
St. Martin (French part)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
19.8
18.3
Sudan
14.1
12.8
Suriname
21.6
8.1
Swaziland
22.0
26.4
Sweden
3.2
6.8
Switzerland
1.8
4.8
Syrian Arab Republic
6.8
15.2
Tajikistan
7.6
10.3
Tanzania
3.6
2.2
Thailand
2.7
1.1
Timor-Leste
10.5
3.4
Togo
1.9
1.8
Tonga
1.4
1.2
Trinidad and Tobago
18.5
4.8
Tunisia
16.6
15.2
Turkey
8.2
11.3
Turkmenistan
2.8
3.4
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
0.9
2.1
Ukraine
5.8
9.5
United Arab Emirates
1.8
1.7
United Kingdom
8.6
4.3
United States
6.8
4.4
Uruguay
8.9
8.1
Uzbekistan
6.6
7.2
Vanuatu
5.5
5.2
Venezuela, RB
9.5
8.1
Vietnam
2.0
2.1
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
8.4
7.1
West Bank and Gaza
24.1
27.9
Yemen, Rep.
8.5
13.8
Zambia
18.9
7.8
Zimbabwe
5.0
5.2
World
5.8
5.5
Arab World
12.7
10.2
Caribbean small states
16.2
10.6
Central Europe and the Baltics
11.2
5.4
East Asia & Pacific
4.2
4.1
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
4.4
4.1
Euro area
8.6
9.2
Europe & Central Asia
7.8
7.6
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
6.9
7.4
European Union
9.0
7.7
Fragile and conflict affected situations
7.4
7.7
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)
6.3
5.5
Latin America & Caribbean
7.7
8.2
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
7.7
8.3
Least developed countries: UN classification
5.3
5.3
Middle East & North Africa
12.5
10.5
Middle East & North Africa (excluding high income)
13.2
12.0
North America
7.2
4.7
OECD members
6.7
5.8
Other small states
12.3
10.5
Pacific island small states
4.5
4.6
Small states
12.8
10.3
South Asia
4.1
3.7
Sub-Saharan Africa
8.3
7.3
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income)
8.3
7.3
High income
6.9
5.7
Low & middle income
5.6
5.5
Low income
5.5
5.3
Lower middle income
4.7
4.7
Middle income
5.6
5.5
Upper middle income
6.1
6.3

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These EXPANDED US IVY leagues during ROBBER BARON few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA corrupted what were strong academic IVY LEAGUES taken to being PRODUCT MILL PATENTING corporate R and D departments. So, we are losing not only our US strong public state and local universities---but what were US IVY LEAGUE university academies of which the US was able to be proud. When we shout those 5% to the 1% players are going under the bus----so too will these EXPANDED US IVY LEAGUES ranked high in US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT disappear. What is that HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE creating WINNERS of private and IVY LEAGUE colleges will soon BURST.

What will be left if we continue to allow this BUBBLE to kill all our US public state and local colleges and private arts and humanities? The US is MOVING FORWARD to having access to only ONLINE GLOBAL IVY LEAGUES accessed by global 1%.

NO HIGHER EDUCATION SCHOOLS FOR YOU----PUBLIC OR PRIVATE!

This is how low US public colleges are going---volunteer part-time adjuncts.

I KNOW!  I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PHYSICS AMATEUR----I WILL BECOME A VOLUNTEER ADJUNCT FOR JOHNS HOPKINS PHYSICS DEPARTMENT!


We see US public universities and private colleges on their way OUT----being resourced to lower and lower qualifications.




Want to Be a 'Volunteer Adjunct'?

Southern Illinois U. Is Hiring


By Nell Gluckman April 24, 2018

T
he pitch wasn’t exactly straightforward, but to some faculty members at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, the meaning was clear enough: Their university was trying to hire unpaid adjuncts.


In an email to department chairs, Michael R. Molino, associate dean for research, budget, and personnel, asked for help in finding alumni with terminal degrees who would apply “to join the SIU Graduate Faculty in a zero-time (adjunct) status.“


Alumni who accepted the three-year positions might serve on graduate students' thesis committees, teach graduate or undergraduate lectures, or collaborate on research projects, according to Molino’s email. The program was created by the Alumni Association, it said.


The “zero-time” positions might be valuable opportunities, it continued. “Participating alumni can benefit from intellectual interactions with faculty in their respective units, as well as through collegial networking opportunities with other alumni adjuncts who will come together regularly.”



Someone forwarded the email to Karen Kelsky, a career consultant for academics who wrote the book The Professor Is In. (Kelsky writes an advice column for The Chronicle.) She posted it to her Facebook page on Monday, along with a plea to her followers to contact Molino to express their disapproval.


The post drew a swift and loud response from academics who were enraged by what they saw as the latest attempt by a university to devalue their work. By Tuesday evening, more than 800 people had shared it. On Twitter it drew an even bigger reaction.



Academia is reverting from a profession to a pastime for the idle rich.

Be aware of and mad about this stuff. https://t.co/ZymkagvbOG
— Ed Burmila (@gin_and_tacos) April 24, 2018


Molina referred a request for comment to Carbondale's chief marketing and communications officer, Rae Goldsmith, who responded with a statement calling the plan to hire alumni a “proposed pilot project” meant “to connect qualified alumni with our students as mentors to enhance — not replace — the work of our faculty.”


The statement referred to participants in the program as “volunteer adjuncts.”


I’ve been watching this “volunteer” faculty position develop — and continue to be appalled at the devaluing of faculty positions.
Sitting on a thesis committee can be A LOT OF WORK! https://t.co/ApjibBo5Rm


— Katherine D. Harris (@triproftri) April 24, 2018The statement, which Goldsmith attributed to Meera Komarraju, interim provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, also said that alumni who participate would not teach full courses. Instead, it said, they “might deliver an individual lecture or lead a seminar discussion based on their expertise.”


The program, it said, would help alumni who “are eager to give back to their university” an opportunity to serve as role models and professional contacts for graduate students.


David Johnson, an associate professor of classics and president of the university’s Faculty Association, was dubious. It’s common for professors at other institutions to work with Southern Illinois faculty members by speaking in a class or serving on a dissertation committee, he said. But formalizing that relationship in this way seemed odd to him.


“It looks like an attempt to outsource work to unpaid labor,” Johnson said. “That’s my first impression.”


Like its public-university peers in the state, Southern Illinois is not exactly flush with cash. A protracted political showdown left the state without a budget for about two years, and in 2016 the university's president told The Chronicle that his system had left vacant nearly 200 positions, many of them on the faculty.


Johnson acknowledged the university’s financial challenges. But “this effort to entice alumni to do work that SIUC faculty should be be doing instead is problematic,” he said.


Some departments have requirements for how many Southern Illinois faculty members have to serve on dissertation committees, Johnson said. The new program, he added, might be an attempt to get more people designated as faculty members at the university as a way get around those rules.


Johnson said faculty representatives would meet with administrators this week. The meeting was scheduled before the volunteer-adjunct program was announced, but Johnson said he now expected the new project to be a topic of discussion.

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We have discussed this public education policy of MOOCs being installed as fast as global banking 1% can---tied with ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE ONE HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION for the global 1% and ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE COMMONER CORE for all 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE and our global 99% of citizens.


What was an US IVY LEAGUE for which to be proud have these few decades of ROBBER BARON frauds been made top gun in producing 5% global banking players and made a PRODUCT MILL PATENTING CORPORATION ----global hedge fund IVY LEAGUE corporations.



NO EXCEPTIONALISM COMING FROM OUR US IVY LEAGUES!


While 99% US WE THE PEOPLE are shouting and fighting the attack on our US public K-university ----those US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT COLLEGE RANKING winners-----are being taken to being great big LOSERS.
Was there a HARVARD OR YALE in MEDIEVAL TIMES? NOPE. Well, then if MOVING FORWARD ends US sovereignty taking us to colonial status so to go what was our US IVY LEAGUE universities and private colleges. This is ONE WORLD FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% after all.



So, all those US IVY LEAGUES below will soon disappear into one global higher education corporation -----today we see all our 5% to the 1% global banking players filling these teaching spots----their talent? Lying, cheating, and stealing. It looks like the revolving door of WALL STREET.

We know when our US IVY LEAGUE universities are filled with people whose only talent is LYING, CHEATING, AND STEALING----our US strong public university system built to hold power accountable and provide REAL INFORMATION to 99% WE THE PEOPLE---is worthless to any 99% global citizen. It's like hiring the KEYSTONE COPS as our US city police department. The Bush FEMA director whose only talent was PLAYING GOLF.



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'Mao was a Yale Man for Skull & Bones'

We have discussed in detail the connection of CHINA'S MAO in GREAT LEAP FORWARD with US IVY LEAGUE YALE----as part of MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD. Here we see the discussion of what will be that 21st century OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% IVY LEAGUE of tomorrow.

OXFORD------CAMBRIDGE-----or below we see OXBRIDGE are those OLD WORLD GLOBAL BANKING 1% IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES which only the global 1% attended back in DARK AGES.

So, MOVING FORWARD US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES will see not only our strong US public state and local colleges and universities disappear-------those US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT COLLEGE WINNERS----the temporarily expanded IVY LEAGUES and private colleges will be disappearing as well.

So, we will hear more of what is written below-------those OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% ASIAN/ARABIC/EUROPEAN will have those global IVY LEAGUES for only the global 1%. No US IVY LEAGUES for a nation with no national sovereignty.





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LEVIN as YALE tied to COURSERA MOVING FORWARD ----MOOCs killing all US public and private colleges and universities, graduates from OXFORD---OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% IVY LEAGUE

Rick Levin

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China's top universities will rival Oxbridge, says Yale president

Jessica Shepherd
Tue 2 Feb 2010 11.58 EST First published on Tue 2 Feb 2010 11.58 EST  THE GUARDIAN

China is spending billions of yuan to propel its best institutions into the top 10, says visiting US academic
China's top universities could soon rival Oxford, Cambridge and the Ivy League, the president of Yale University has warned.



Professor Richard Levin, speaking to the Guardian on a trip to the UK, said Chinese institutions would rank in the world's top 10 universities in 25 years' time, squeezing out some of the west's elite campuses.


At the moment, British universities dominate the top 10 rankings, with Cambridge coming second to Harvard, University College London fourth and Oxford and Imperial College London joint fifth. The rest of the top 15 are US universities. China's highest-ranking institution is Tsinghua, at 49.


But the Chinese government now spends billions of yuan – at least 1.5% of its gross domestic product – on higher education with the aim of propelling its best institutions, such as the universities of Tsinghua and Peking, into the top slots, Levin said.

"In 25 years, only a generation's time, these universities could rival the Ivy League," said Levin, the Ivy League's longest-tenured president. He was speaking before giving a lecture on the rise of Asia's universities to the Royal Society in London on Monday evening.


Levin said: "China and India ... seek to expand the capacity of their systems of higher education ... and aspire simultaneously to create a limited number of world-class universities to take their places among the best. This is an audacious agenda, but China, in particular, has the will and resources that make it feasible. It has built the largest higher education sector in the world in merely a decade."



China has more than doubled the number of its higher education institutions in the last decade from 1,022 to 2,263. More than 5 million Chinese students enrol on degree courses now, compared to 1 million in 1997.
Chinese scholars are increasingly leaving their posts in US and UK universities to return home, Levin said.


The growth of Chinese higher education comes as English university leaders fear they may not be able to maintain their world-class reputation for higher education, with savage government cuts of £950m over the next three years.


Commenting on the cuts, Levin said it would be "a shame if the British government didn't recognise the status of Oxford and Cambridge as global leaders".


He pointed out that it had taken centuries for Harvard and Yale to match Oxford and Cambridge. And while China had a large pool of talent to draw on, it was currently seen as less attractive to scholars from across the world than the US and the UK, he said. China's universities lack "multidisciplinary breadth" and "the cultivation of critical thinking".


Levin said: "I don't see the rise of Asia's universities as threatening. Competition in education is a positive sum game. Increasing the quality of education around the world translates into better informed and more productive citizens."


He said Oxford and Cambridge's esteemed tutorial system, whereby one or two students have a private class with a lecturer, was "almost unthinkably labour-intensive in an Asian context". Too many academic grants were still given to Chinese scholars because of their political affiliations, Levin hinted.


"To create world-class capacity in research, resources must not only be abundant, they must also be allocated on the basis of scholarly and scientific merit, rather than on the basis of seniority or political influence. To create world-class capacity in education, [China's] curriculum must be broadened and pedagogy transformed." But, he said, these were problems that could be solved with sufficient leadership and political will.

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Without coincidence------our featured global banking 1% LITERARY STAR------Charlie Lovett-----writes a novel about just these education issues.  Fictional history representing today's GLOBAL BANKING 1% SOCIETAL FADS------this time our MEDIEVAL BIBLIOPHILE tied to a beautiful medieval monastery town brings in the KING AUTHOR HOLY GRAIL meets the US digitization by global GOOGLE all the world's books and libraries.  Of course the plots places these two protagonists at odds------ending in blissful wedlock.   BIBLIOPHILES FEELING DIGITIZATION OF ALL BOOKS IS ALL GOOD.

OH, REALLY????????????
Here is one of those US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT high ranking college grads as one of our global banking 5 % MEDIA selling propaganda bad for 99% US WE THE PEOPLE


'The Lost Book Of The Grail' Is The One Book Every Bibliophile Needs To Read This Winter

BySadie Trombetta
Mar 2 2017'........
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EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts Amherst May 2012



The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett


Competition published on March 10, 2017.



Academic and bibliophile Arthur Prescott finds respite from the drudgery of his professorship in the Barchester Cathedral Library, where he devotes himself to researching the Holy Grail and writing his long-delayed guide to the history of the medieval cathedral. His peaceful existence is shattered by the arrival of a young American academic named Bethany Davis, who has come to digitize the library’s ancient books. Arthur’s initial hostility towards Bethany turns to affection as he discovers a kindred spirit who shares his interest in the Holy Grail and his devotion to literature.

Together, they mount a search for the Book of Ewolda, an esoteric tome that could reveal long-forgotten secrets about the Cathedral, the Grail and their connections to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. As Arthur and Bethany delve further into the past, the secret history of England – from the Norman invasion to the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution and the Blitz – is revealed.







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“We thought eliminating grades was the gold standard ideal,” said Adam Carter, chief academic officer. “We thought, ‘Those stupid grade levels are holding us back.’”



Global banking 1% have that goal of eliminating our US K-12 public school structure to go with apprenticeship K-career. Children sent off to work as apprentices as young as 6-8 years old which equates to elementary school. We discussed in detail this ending of what is our middle and high school grades sending children directly into corporate apprenticeships as free child labor.


That is the goal of ELIMINATING GRADES as a gold standard ideal.


We were told Clinton era education reform was all about protecting the feelings of that small percentage of the learning bell curve of children who get the Ds and Fs. There will always be our children who get the lower grades. Making sure there are living wages jobs for all US citizens is what our children need most. Using this SPARING THE CHILD FROM FEELING LESS THE ACHIEVER-----Clinton education reform took all of what was centuries of EDUCATION RIGOR from our classrooms ---never intending to be helping those D and F children.


THIS IS WHAT ELIMINATING GRADES DOES ---IT TAKES OUR ALREADY DIMINISHED EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT FROM CLINTON ERA AND BRINGS IT DOWN TO DARK AGES.


It now becomes simply finishing a module tied to vocational training.

'Assessment Instruments for Young Children Birth Through Age 5

Office of Early Learning and School Readiness...................Sandra Miller, Ph.D., Director
Office of Early Learning and School Readiness
Ohio Department of Education'

Assessment Instruments Listed in the Catalog
AGES 0 – 3
Adaptive Behavior/Social Emotional
Cognitive
Communication
Motor/Sensory


AGES 3 – 5

Pre-Academic
Adaptive Behavior/Social Emotional
Cognitive
Communication
Motor/Sensory
Family



We discuss often how this effects our US public school students but MOVING FORWARD RACE TO THE TOP/COMMONER CORE takes all US 99% of citizens black, white, and brown citizens getting rid of those 5% global banking players.

We also take time in reading on public education policy to note who is selling these global banking 1% corporate education goals below we see CHALKBEAT/EDNEWS/WASHINGTON POST with our global CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PBS NPR all global banking corporate school education sites.

Ann Schimke

Ann Schimke covers healthy school topics and early childhood issues for Chalkbeat Colorado. She's written for The Washington Post as well as newspapers in Michigan, Virginia and Colorado. She holds a master’s degree in education policy from the University of Michigan. She joined Chalkbeat (then EdNews Colorado) in 2012.


These articles all show pictures of our US children thinking all this is so good. Where do those US 5% having been shuttled into private schools these few decades fall in all this? Right there with the 99% having no more than an average learning ability.


Grade levels could be a thing of the past in schools focused on competency

Education May 13, 2015 2:55 PM EDT

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Anika Anand and Ann Schimke on May 11, 2015



In a suburb just outside of Denver, Principal Sarah Gould stands outside a fifth-grade classroom at Hodgkins Elementary School watching students work. This classroom, she explains, is for students working roughly at grade level. Down the hall, there are two other fifth-grade classrooms. One is labeled “Level 2 and 3,” for students who are working at the second and third-grade levels. The other is for students who are working at a middle-school level.



But some of these students won’t necessarily stay in these classrooms for the whole school year. The students will move to new classrooms when they’ve mastered everything they were asked to learn in their first class. This can happen at any time during the year.
“We have kids move every day. It’s just based on when they’re ready,” Gould said.


Six years ago, Hodgkins Elementary worked the same way most schools and districts do: Students were assigned to a class for a fixed amount of time and were promoted when the time ended, assuming that they had gained the skills they needed for the next class — and sometimes even if they had not.


Now, the school is part of a growing movement toward “competency-based education,” which replaces “seat time” with skills as the main standard for whether students are promoted. Competency-based education goes by many names — mastery-based, proficiency-based and performance-based education — but the idea is the same: Students are measured by what they’ve learned, not the amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom.


Innovations in technology and how teachers can monitor students’ progress, along with changes to regulations about how long students must spend in class, have made it possible for schools and districts to adopt competency-based systems in an effort to use students’ time in school more effectively.


At least 40 states have one or more districts implementing competency education, and that number is growing, according to a 2013 KnowledgeWorks report with the most up to date numbers on the trend.
But competency-based education doesn’t look the same across the country. In fact, advocates say schools and districts fall on a “competency continuum,” based on which aspects of competency education they’ve implemented.


When advocates talk about a “pure” model of competency education, they describe a model that isn’t bound by grade levels or the Carnegie unit, a measure of the amount of time a student has studied a subject in class. At that end of the spectrum, schools like Hodgkins or New York City’s Olympus Academy have essentially gotten rid of standard K-12 grade levels and only move students to the next learning level if they’ve proven they’ve mastered the concepts. (The schools generally must track students by grade level for funding and state testing purposes, even if their classes are not designed for single-age cohorts. Some advocates, including officials in Hodgkins’s district, want state policies changed to allow competency-based learning schools to track students differently.)
“Education systems in the past have been notorious for jumping on bandwagons but nothing substantially changes under the surface. In our model everything has changed under the surface,” said Oliver Grenham, chief education officer of Hodgkins’s district, Adams County School District 50 in Colorado.



But at the same time, advocates acknowledge that the “full system overhaul” is a heavy lift and that schools need to start from a place that makes the most sense for them based on their time, resources, and community support. For some districts, the clearest path has been to create new schools based on the model, as Philadelphia did this year when it opened three high schools that assign students to “workshops” rather than classes.


The schools retain some of the traditional school organization, but are working toward replacing standard grading with a detailed, competency-based matrix that lets students know at all times where they stand and helps them understand their own strengths and weaknesses.



Traditional letter grades don’t give students much information about what they know and can do, said Thomas Gaffey, the technology coordinator at Building 21, one of the three Philadelphia schools. The competency-based evaluation he helped design “makes the learning process transparent,” he said.


More often, schools have nestled a competency-based philosophy within their existing operations, maintaining their grade-level arrangements while adapting how they assess student learning.


“We’re a hybrid, which is what I think appeals to people who look at our model,” said Brian Stack, principal of Sanborn High School in New Hampshire. “It’s not vastly different from what they do with a traditional model, but it’s not so far out on the spectrum that it’s unattainable for them to get to where we are.”


At Sanborn, students are still enrolled in traditional classes and still receive credit for class at the end of the year. But all the courses have defined core competencies and if students don’t gain those competencies, they have to do extra work in order to earn credit for the class, rather than simply accepting the lower grade. The school is also in the process of doing away with numerical grades in favor of a scale that ranges from “limited progress” to “exceeding expectations.”


“We grade kids every day,” Stack said. “The difference is, what are you doing with that grade? Are you using that as feedback to tell students how they’re doing and to inform instruction or are you just using it as a determination to say did they know it or not?”
Stack said as much as he would like for his school to be totally unbound by seat time, its model is still dictated by the school calendar.



“If we can’t move kids when they’re ready, we can at the very least try to personalize instruction to the extent possible when they’re with us,” he said.
Other schools offer their own reasons for maintaining grade levels while rolling out a competency-based approach.


After a competency-learning pilot in math yielded major gains for California’s Summit Preparatory charter schools, the network adopted the approach in most academic subjects — and considered going further.


“We thought eliminating grades was the gold standard ideal,” said Adam Carter, chief academic officer. “We thought, ‘Those stupid grade levels are holding us back.’”


That changed when Summit officials thought through what they would lose by doing away with grade levels and realized that students benefit by belonging to a fixed cohort that advances together. “If students can plug into a project that is rich and full of layers, we don’t need to get rid of grade levels,” he said.


Schools operated by Rocketship, a national charter school network, regroup students four to six times a day based on their academic skills, in a robust example of how educators can use student data to foster competency-based learning.



“But we still have grade levels because of the social-emotional needs of students, especially early elementary,” said CEO Preston Smith. “Five-year-olds need to be with 5-year-olds most of the day so they can develop the life skills they need to be successful.”
Advocates of competency-based learning say the diversity among schools’ approaches should be expected — and appreciated — as more experiments take shape.


“Each school and each district is on its own journey and they’re going to have different entry points,” said Susan Patrick, president of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, which champions online and blended learning models that are often part of competency-based programs. “Most school leaders who are implementing this well … had been working on the building blocks for three to six years.”



Lillian Pace, senior director of national policy for KnowledgeWorks, said, “Naturally, you’re going to see a tremendous amount of diversity in implementation. … That’s healthy. We need to try different approaches. We need to figure out ultimately which methods are the most effective.”


For now, the experience of schools like Hodgkins suggests that competency-based education might help engage students in their learning.
When kindergarten teacher Jenn Dickman recently asked for volunteers to share their “data notebooks” with a visitor, her students rushed en masse to grab the binders.


Jayleen Vasquez was first in line. She flipped quickly through the pages—each a mini-progress report of her skills. At the top were headers such as, “I can read a Level D book with purpose and understanding” or “I can read 50 sight words in 100 seconds or less.”


Underneath were columns shaded in colorful crayon hues showing whether she’d met the goal, and if not, how much farther she had to go.


“I passed these. I got those two right and this one I just forgot one. I did not pass this one,” she said, gesturing to one page. Then she concluded with pride: “I passed all this.”


This story was produced as a collaboration among all news organizations participating in the Expanded Learning Time reporting project. Reporting was contributed by Sue Frey for EdSource California, and Dale Mezzacappa for the Philadelphia Notebook.

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Let's look broadly at private schools that cropped up during CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA to replace our US public K-university by global banking 1%---NOT RELIGIOUS-----many being religious freemason private schools ----here today and gone tomorrow.


Since MOVING FORWARD is morphing to far-right, authoritarian, militaristic dictatorship LIBERTARIAN MARXISM---these OLD WORLD freemason structures always disappear.


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international.la-croix.com/news/catholic... Catholic secondary schools in Ireland ‘disappearing’ . There is a need to retain Catholic second level schools as an option for parents, says educator.


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Aug 13, 2003 · A Rich, Disappearing Legacy Remembering Black boarding schools: A tradition obscured by desegregation's impact

Below we see other freemason private schools ---the well-known LIBERTY UNIVERSITY-----Notre Dame-----Brigham Young----all admittedly freemason---NOT RELIGIOUS.


"My father would say in those early days," Falwell said, "that the goal for Liberty was to become for evangelicals what Notre Dame was for Catholics, what Brigham Young was for Mormons."

What we see here is the closing of those private freemason schools at the middle-high school level.  We will see more and more of these freemason schools closing even at the elementary level and as colleges because MOVING FORWARD has only global corporate campus schools-----not interested in pretending to support religion.


History repeats itself remember. Every time MOVING FORWARD goes to far-right wing extreme wealth extreme poverty LIBERTARIAN MARXISM-----FAKE religious freemason schools disappear.


History repeats itself remember. Every time MOVING FORWARD goes to far-right wing extreme wealth extreme poverty LIBERTARIAN MARXISM-----FAKE religious freemason schools disappear. They are disappearing not from lack of money or funding---MOVING FORWARD kills centuries of I AM MAN education opportunities for all but those global 1%.


REAL left social progressives have always supported Freedom of Religion and Separation of Church and State because these are the policies that actually do protect our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE wanting their religious practices. Those at the top of religious structures are simply global banking 1%.

Can Catholic Schools Be Saved?


Lacking nuns and often students, a shrinking system looks for answers

By Peter Meyer

Spring 2007 / Vol. 7, No. 2


Bobby and I stood outside the small public elementary school that our children attended, pondering our respective 1st graders’ prospects. The weeds poked up through the asphalt, the windows on the 30-year-old building were dirty, the playground equipment was rotting. Inside the K–2 school, some 600 kids were being prepared for academic underachievement: in a few more years two-thirds of them would be unable to read at grade level.


“Nothing wrong with this place,” Bobby finally said, “that a busload of nuns wouldn’t solve.”
I laughed. I knew exactly what he meant. We grew up on opposite sides of the country (he in New York and I in Oregon), but we both grew up Catholic, in the ’50s, and that meant one thing if nothing else: nuns.


The guardians of moral order and academic achievement for several generations of Catholic boys and girls, these robed religious women ruled with—well, with rulers. And paddles. And, sometimes, fists. Before “tough love” there was Sister Patrick Mary or Sister Elizabeth Maureen. Before No Child Left Behind there were behinds burnished by a swift kick from a foot that emerged without warning from under several acres of robes.
Indeed, our childhood memories, different in detail, were singular in their moral clarity: we knew what a busload of nuns could do. They would march up and down the aisles. (Yes, there would be aisles, in a room filled with 30 to 50 kids—phooey on class size.) And with a glance from behind their starched white wimples, we would learn.



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The problem is that there no longer are busloads of nuns; in fact, most schools would be lucky to have a Mini Cooper’s worth of such minimum-wage professional teachers. Their ranks have declined by a staggering 62 percent since 1965 (from 180,000 to 68,000). The staff composition of Catholic schools has similarly been turned on its head, from some 90 percent female religious in the ’50s to less than 5 percent today (see Figure 1). “The school system had literally been built on their backs,” reported Anthony Bryk, Valerie Lee, and Peter Holland in their 1992 study Catholic Schools and the Common Good, “through the services they contributed in the form of the very low salaries that they accepted.” Consequently, costs have soared; average annual tuition has gone from next to nothing to more than $2,400 in elementary schools and almost $6,000 in high schools.


Despite a growing Catholic population (from 45 million in 1965 to almost 77 million today, making it the largest Christian denomination in the United States), Catholic school enrollment has plummeted, from 5.2 million students in nearly 13,000 schools in 1960 to 2.5 million in 9,000 schools in 1990. After a promising increase in the late 1990s, enrollment had by 2006 dropped to 2.3 million students in 7,500 schools. And the steep decline would have been even steeper if these sectarian schools had to rely on their own flock for enrollment: almost 14 percent of Catholic school enrollment is now non-Catholic, up from less than 3 percent in 1970 (see Figure 2). When Catholic schools educated 12 percent of all schoolchildren in the United States, in 1965, the proportion of Catholics in the general population was 24 percent. Catholics still make up about one-quarter of the American population, but their schools enroll less than 5 percent of all students (see Figure 3).


What happened to the Catholics? What happened to a school system that at one time educated one of every eight American children? And did it quite well.


May I Have Your Attention, Please!


As most educators know, Catholic schools work and have worked for a long time. Sociologist James Coleman and colleagues Thomas Hoffer and Sally Kilgore, in 1982, were among the first to document Catholic schools’ academic successes, in High School Achievement: Public and Private Schools. A variety of studies since, by scholars at the University of Chicago, Northwestern, the Brookings Institution, and Harvard, have all supported the conclusion that Catholic schools do a better job educating children, especially the poor and minorities, than public schools.

WOW!  WHAT HYPER-GLOBAL BANKING NEO-LIBERAL HEDGE FUND IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL DATA THERE!



According to the Common Good authors, Catholic high schools—and many believe that this applies to elementary schools as well—“manage simultaneously to achieve relatively high levels of student learning, distribute this learning more equitably with regard to race and class than in the public sector, and sustain high levels of teacher commitment and student engagement.” One of the keys, they concluded, is the organization of Catholic schools. Parochial schools are less likely to fall into the public-school habit of “structuring inequities”: public schools offer students the chance to take weaker academic courses while Catholic school courses are “largely determined by the school.” The irony, say Bryk et al., is that such a “constrained academic structure” contributes more to “the common school effect” than the potluck served by the public schools. Catholic schools give less weight to “background differences” of their students and thus do not allow those background differences to be “transformed into achievement differences.” Even after adjusting for student background differences, Bryk and his colleagues found significant “school effects” on academic achievement.


“You know the story about the kid whose parents got fed up with their son’s constant discipline problems in the public school?” asked James Goodness, communications director of Newark Catholic Schools, while entertaining journalists at a recent archdiocesan-sponsored luncheon. Newark, the tenth-largest parochial district in the country, closed nine elementary and two secondary schools in 2005, with a corresponding enrollment decline of 5 percent, from some 47,300 to 44,750 students. Goodness, with his story about the problem public-school boy, was explaining what made Catholic schools special. “‘That’s it!’ says the dad. ‘It’s Catholic school for you.’ They sent him. They waited. No calls from school. ‘What’s up?’ the dad finally asks. ‘The nuns been boxin’ your ears?’ ‘No,’ says the kid. ‘They didn’t have to. When I got to school, I saw this guy hanging from a cross with nails in his hands and feet and I figured they meant business.’”



What Catholic schools are very good at, it seems, is getting kids’ attention. No surprise to those of us who grew up in them. The establishment of order and discipline, in all things: We wore uniforms. We had homework. We had to eat our lunch, even the peas and carrots. My wife remembers classmates having to put a nickel in the “mission box” if they mispronounced a word—“libary” instead of library or “pitcher” instead of picture—at her Jersey City parochial grade school. Grammar counted. Posture counted. So did skirt length. It was all for the greater glory of God, of course. By reaching for God, the “all-knowing,” so the nuns said, we might know something even if our reach fell short. There were no prizes for just showing up. All of it, we knew, on some preternatural level, made us “better.” And the research seems to support that view. In fact, one of the “surprises” for the Common Good researchers, who deemed Catholic schools’ academic focus both consistent and laudable, was that the schools seemed to succeed even when the teaching and the curriculum were “ordinary.”


Such Catholic rigor was part missionary zeal—to spread “the word”—and part defense against the encroachments of an increasingly secular world. And secular, for Catholics, meant a certain slackness in moral and academic discipline. In the United States, the so-called “wall of separation” between church and state, between order and freedom, eventually forced Catholics to build their own school system, the only country in the world where they have one (see sidebar). The battles to safeguard order, and academic excellence, were fought early and often. At the turn of the 20th century, for example, Catholic school leaders refused to follow their public school counterparts into a vocational and utilitarian tracking system. “Catholic youth should not be the ‘hewers of wood and drawers of water,’ but should be prepared for the professions or mercantile pursuits,” went one early protestation by the Association of Catholic Colleges.



Catholic schools toyed with progressive education models in the 1970s, but gave it up, report the authors of the Common Good, when they realized they could not be all things to all children. Catholic high schools soon “returned to conventional class-period organization, heightened academic standards and a renewed emphasis on a core of academic subjects.”


Everything but a Plague of Locusts

So, if they are so good, why are Catholic schools disappearing? And if there are so many more Catholics, why are there fewer schools? No more nuns? No more money? Charter schools? Loss of faith? Indolence? Scandal? Irrelevance? The answer seems to be all of that—and less.



“The answer is fairly simple,” says James Cultrara, director for education for the New York State Catholic Conference. “The rising cost of providing a Catholic education has made it more difficult for parents to meet those rising costs.”

YOU MEAN IT TAKES A GLOBAL 1% TO AFFORD AN ORDINARY US BROAD DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION?



The Catholic-school story has been covered, as education journalist Samuel Freedman wrote in the New York Times, “as either a sob story or a sort of natural disaster, the inevitable outcome of demographics.” But Freedman believes that “there need not have been anything inevitable about the closings,” especially since Catholic populations are increasing.


Brooklyn closed 26 elementary schools in 2005, even though its Catholic population has grown by some 600,000 since 1950. “But the other trends were unmistakable,” says Thomas Chadzutko, superintendent of the diocese’s schools, and the man who presided over the closings. “Enrollment was down and expenses up.”


If only it were that simple.


The loss of nuns has undoubtedly added to the financial burden. But demographic change, and the failure to respond to it, has created other burdens. Since the Catholic school “system” is actually a loose and quite decentralized confederation of 7,500 schools supported, for the most part, by 19,000 parishes in more than 150 dioceses, it took “the Church” some time to see the trends, much less develop new strategies to respond to them.


“We have a system of schools, not a school system,” explains Newark’s new vicar for education, Father Kevin Hanbury. “The local parishes traditionally have been responsible for the schools.” Those parishes, and their schools, feel change at the local, neighborhood level quite quickly. But it takes time for the huge, theologically monolithic, and institutionally undemocratic Church to react.


The flight from inner cities to the suburbs by working- and middle-class Americans affected Catholic schools as much as, if not more than, it did public schools. Downtown churches were suddenly filled by poor immigrants from Catholic nations (Latin America and the Caribbean) without a tradition of Catholic schools, much less a habit of paying for them. According to the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), between 2000 and 2006, nearly 600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools closed, a 7 percent decline, and nearly 290,000 students left, almost 11 percent. The largest declines were among elementary schools in 12 urban dioceses (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Boston, Newark, Detroit, and Miami), which together have lost almost 20 percent of their students (more than 136,000) in the last five years.



One factor is that the public schools in the suburbs are not like the public schools that Catholics tried to avoid in the cities. “Folks got to the suburbs and discovered that it was not only very expensive to build new schools, but that the public schools were not that bad,” says Patrick Wolf, professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas.


And charter schools, says Father Ronald Nuzzi, director of the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) leadership program at Notre Dame, “are one of the biggest threats to Catholic schools in the inner city, hands down. How do you compete with an alternative that doesn’t cost anything?”


Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters. “Private schools will lose one student for every three students gained in the charter schools,” they wrote. This had, they said, “not only…a statistically significant effect on private schools but an effect that is economically meaningful.”


And then came the sex abuse scandals. There has been nothing quite so shattering as the endless parade of headlines about priests abusing children. The Louisville Archdiocese was hit with almost 200 sex abuse suits in a single six-month period in 2003. In April of that year, the Boston Archdiocese revealed that it carried a $46 million deficit, “the largest any diocese has ever had,” according to the New York Times, because it had paid out more than $150 million in legal settlements in sex abuse cases. The crisis in Boston was heightened, said Cardinal Sean O’Malley, because parish donations fell off by several million dollars as a result of the scandal. The diocese closed more than 60 parishes, and dozens of parish schools. A Gallup survey in 2003 found that one in four Catholics withheld donations to the Church because of the scandal. Four dioceses, of the 195 administrative units in the American Catholic church—Davenport, Iowa; Portland, Oregon; Spokane, Washington; and Tucson, Arizona—have already declared bankruptcy because of lawsuits over sex abuse. Others, like Boston, are on the brink.


Marketing for Miracles


“The world changed” was a common refrain of Catholic educators with whom I spoke over several months of research. And it was clear that they included the Catholic world in that assessment. Faith, on many levels, has been shaken. The “new reality,” says Samuel Freedman of the Times, is that Catholic schools “will have to become expert fundraisers to survive.” And marketers. And promoters. And lobbyists. And miracle workers. Catholics are scrambling to find their footing in a world of charters, vouchers, and tax credits.


CATHOLIC SCHOOL HISTORY LESSON

Spanish and French colonists brought schools (which were Catholic) with them to the New World in the 1600s. There were parochial primary schools in Pennsylvania in the 1700s. The first “female academy” in America was in New Orleans, established by the Ursuline Sisters from France in 1727.


Catholic schools in those days were often supported by public funds. St. Peter’s in New York City applied for and received state aid in 1806, as did St. Patrick’s in 1816. Catholic schools continued to receive public monies in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and New Jersey almost to the end of the 19th century. New York State did not outlaw the practice until 1898.


Catholics perceived “public school” as not just a threat to Catholics, but, as the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia (CE) recounts, an “imminent danger to faith and morals.” And in that threat was born the modern Catholic school system, as Catholic bishops convened in Baltimore in 1884 and ordered each parish to build a school and each Catholic kid to enroll. Between 1880 and 1900, as the immigrants began arriving, the number of students in Catholic schools more than doubled.


“The vastness of the system,” the CE reported at the turn of the 20th century, “may be gauged by the fact that it comprises over 20,000 teachers, over 1,000,000 pupils, represents $100,000,000 worth of property; and costs over $15,000,000 annually.” The Church saw its “missionary” duty to educate the new immigrants and in 1910, Catholics counted 293 Polish, 161 French, and 48 Italian



schools, and a smattering of Slovak and Lithuanian schools. But the “vastness” now represented such a threat to the secular system that some considered Catholic schools “a destroyer of American Patriotism,” and John Dewey pronounced the church “inimical to democracy,” Many states simply outlawed Catholic schools. It took a Supreme court decision, in 1925, Pierce v. The Society of Sisters, to declare unconstitutional an Oregon law that required public school attendance. The Catholic “system” continued to grow and by 1965, a stunning 12 percent of all elementary and secondary students in the United States were enrolled in Catholic schools.


Then came sex, drugs, rock ’n roll—and Vatican II. The conclave of the world’s Catholic bishops and cardinals called to order in 1962 by a cherubic old pontiff, John XXIII, turned the Church on its head at a time when the Beatles, Martin Luther King, and the Weather Underground were shaking civil and social foundations to their core. Swept away were the Latin Mass, the Baltimore Catechism, meatless Fridays, the high priest at an altar with his back to his congregation.


Not only are the nuns and priests now gone, but so too is a Catholic culture that for 100 years produced nuns and priests with faithful regularity. Of course, the debate as to whether the demise of Catholic didacticism and marshal order has been good or bad still roils Church waters. But the fact remains that the American Catholic school system isn’t what it used to be.

—Peter Meyer


The Brooklyn diocese has hired a marketing firm. In Newark one of the first things Father Kevin Hanbury did when he was made vicar of education last year, before he hired a full-time marketing director, was host a white linen luncheon for the local media. “We have a story to tell,” says Hanbury, “and we want to get it as close to page 1 as we can.” The story, as Hanbury and other Catholic leaders tell it, is that Catholic schools not only work, but they are good for America. “Many of our schools are majority non-Catholic,” says Karen Ristau, president of the NCEA. Ristau herself, a laywoman, represents a new, and some would say sobered, Church. She has an armful of academic credentials, but is also a grandmother. “We have high expectations for these little kiddos,” she says, speaking of the 2-million-plus children in the Catholic school system that NCEA represents.


After I called the Memphis diocese to inquire about Catholic schools there, a FEDEX truck was at my door the next morning, with a package of press clips, brochures, and a CD. “Let me tell you this story,” says a soft-spoken Mary McDonald, superintendent of Memphis Catholic Schools, also a grandmother. Though McDonald can now describe her first days on the job as superintendent in July of 1998 with some bemusement, when she received orders from her new boss, Bishop J. Terry Steib, to reopen already closed Catholic schools in downtown Memphis, she thought she’d been sent to hell.


Memphis was a sprawling Catholic diocese that had seen the number of its faithful increase by half, but its school enrollment decrease by almost a quarter. While there were new Catholic schools and Catholic schools with waiting lists in the suburbs, inner-city Memphis had become increasingly black and poor and non-Catholic. A half-dozen Catholic schools had closed over the previous two decades. The few schools that remained were in the death grip of aging parish populations, increased costs (the number of nuns in Memphis had dropped from 160 to 80), and dwindling enrollment.


No wonder “the Bishop’s vision,” as she calls it, sent McDonald right to the diocesan chapel and onto her knees. It didn’t seem to matter to Bishop Steib that McDonald, a teacher and school principal during her 30 years in education, had never been a superintendent. “It was daunting,” she recalls. “I just went out and started talking to anyone who would listen—and even those who didn’t want to—about the value of and need for Catholic schools.” And it didn’t matter that the people in those slums where the empty schools were weren’t Catholic, says McDonald, who often quotes a line attributed to Cardinal James Hickey of Washington, D.C., which has become a call to arms in the new crusade to save Catholic education: “We don’t educate these children because they are Catholic, but because we are Catholic.”


A year after McDonald started beating the bushes of Memphis for money, on a July day in 1999, her phone rang. The call was from someone offering “a multimillion-dollar donation,” says McDonald, who told the Memphis Commercial Appeal at the time, “I know a miracle when I see one.” Though the donors—there were more than one—remain anonymous to this day, their $15 million “was earmarked for Catholic education,” says McDonald, recounting the story seven years later, as if she still can’t believe it. “And they weren’t even Catholic.”



McDonald and her staff reopened St. Augustine, a 65-year-old school that had closed in 1995, within three weeks of receiving the donation. McDonald had 20 students registered in three days. The school opened with 30 students in two kindergarten classes. The students didn’t need to have the $2,400 tuition—the donation paid for scholarships—and they didn’t need to be Catholic.



“But the schools are truly Catholic,” says McDonald. “We’re not a public school. We’re not a charter. We have the same values we’ve had for centuries—do the same things. We say prayer every day. We say the rosary at the same time every week. We have Mass for everyone.” And uniforms, of course. “Our donors believed that Catholic education could make a difference,” says McDonald, “and that Catholic schools are successful in inner cities.” Within the next six years, eight more schools reopened, adding more than 1,300 students to the Jubilee School system, the name of the new initiative. Almost 90 percent of the students lived at or below the poverty level; over 80 percent were non-Catholic.



Has all the change and consolidation affected academics? No, says McDonald. Jubilee students are reading at grade level within a year of arriving; they are then outperforming their peers on standardized TerraNova tests. So far, none of the Jubilee students are old enough to have entered high school, but McDonald is optimistic. “We have a 99.9 percent graduation rate in our six high schools. Virtually no one drops out.”


Capital Campaigns and a Voucher in Every Pot


A half-dozen years earlier in Washington, D.C., Cardinal Hickey had appointed a commission to study the problems confronting his diocese’s inner-city schools. “The commission recommended closing 12 of 16 struggling schools,” recalls Juana Brown, who was then the principal of one of those schools, Sacred Heart. Hickey issued his now-famous dictum: “Closing schools is not an option.” He ordered the group back to the drawing board.


When it returned, Hickey’s commission proposed creation of Faith in the City, an outreach and fundraising initiative that included a Center City Consortium (CCC). The task for CCC was solving the mystery of the less-than-holy trinity of modern Catholic education: financial distress, declining enrollment, and falling test scores.
This was the same mystery, on a smaller scale, that Mary McDonald was tackling in Memphis. Though details differed, the “can’t fail” spirit has marked both enterprises and made them models for Catholic school rescue and reform.



“I tried to get people to look at Memphis,” recalls George Loney, who directed Dayton’s Catholic Urban Presence program, launched in 2002 to find a solution to that city’s Catholic school crisis. Loney did help Dayton’s Catholic schools, part of the Cincinnati Archdiocese, achieve “needed economies of scale” by consolidating. And test results are good. “I just can’t get them to publicize them,” he says.


The D.C. archdiocese announced in December of 2006 that it would close—“we prefer to say consolidate,” says communications director Susan Gibbs—three elementary schools in the District. Yet the CCC schools seem to be working. Martin Davis of the Fordham Foundation writes that the 13 consortium schools achieved “remarkable growth” in grades 2 through 8 proficiency rates on the TerraNova from 2000 to 2005. “More remarkable,” writes Davis, “those growth rates include test scores from 2004–05, when 300 high-poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.”


In fact, vouchers are proving to be something of an antidote to the threat posed by charter schools. In Milwaukee, for example, according to Paul Peterson, while charters have “accelerated” the decline of private schools, vouchers seem to have “stabilized” them. Catholic schools in the city have been, since 1996, among the many private schools to benefit from the first state-supported voucher program. In 2005, each of the some 14,000 vouchers passed out in Milwaukee was worth $5,943 at any one of 117 eligible schools, 35 of them Catholic. (The 45 charters in the city, allowed since 1993, received between $7,000 and $9,000 per student.) The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel concluded in 2005 that “the principal effect of choice” in the city has been “to preserve the city’s private schools, many of them Lutheran and Catholic.”



David Prothero, associate superintendent of schools for the archdiocese, says the 6,000 Catholic-school voucher students represent nearly half of Milwaukee’s Catholic school students. “That’s significant.”



“The irony is that the research shows that private schools don’t make a big difference for high socioeconomic students,” says Patrick Wolf, author of a recent study on voucher impacts in Washington, DC. “But they do make a difference for low-income students. And they’re the ones who can’t afford them.”
“From a lawmaker’s point of view,” says Jim Cultrara, who is also co-chairman of the New York State Coalition of Independent and Religious Schools and spearheaded a serious, though unsuccessful, effort to have the New York State Legislature pass a tax credit in 2006, “it’s fiscally prudent to provide financial assistance to enroll children in independent and religious schools. It helps reduce the tax burden and alleviate overcrowding in public schools. And that’s not even counting the benefit of providing students with a quality education.”


Thus, the significance of the scholarship programs and vouchers, and the Church’s mission to the poor. The latest NCEA data show the mean tuition and per-pupil cost for Catholic elementary schools to be $2,607 and $4,268, and for high schools, $5,870 and $7,200, all below average public-school per-pupil expenditures. Thus, too, the persuasiveness of the argument that Catholic schools are a form of subsidy to the nation’s public education system. Diane Ravitch wrote, in a Daily News editorial after hearing word of the Brooklyn diocese school closings in 2005, “It will be a loss for all New York City. The Catholic schools in this city have provided genuine choice for children from low-income and working-class families for more than 150 years. What is more, they have established a solid reputation for safety, academic standards and moral values. All of this has been supplied at a nominal cost to families and at no cost to taxpayers.” The NCEA estimates the value of the Catholic school system’s annual subsidy to the nation at $19.4 billion.


Through smart financial administration and management and aggressive fundraising, many dioceses are beginning to take back some ground lost in the last several decades. Pooling resources for such things as collecting tuition, custodial contracts, and paying salaries has saved money as well as freed principals to focus on academics. Through aggressive marketing and with a corporate board of “the rich and powerful,” the D.C. consortium has raised $30 million in a capital campaign in the last five years. An annual gala fundraiser, co-sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Representative John Boehner (R-OH), last year garnered $1 million.



“Mr. Boehner has visited every one of our schools,” says Brown. “He’s 1 of 11 children and grew up Catholic and has been a tremendous booster.”
It is probably no coincidence that Kennedy and Boehner were key Capitol Hill strategists in passing the historic No Child Left Behind Act. “Catholics believed in every child learning long before NCLB,” says Juana Brown. “We have a mission to educate.”



The dust has still not settled in the Church. But the new missionaries, like Brown and McDonald, seem as holy and determined as their habited predecessors. Given the Church’s history, one would not want to bet against them, especially on the education front. Can tax credits, vouchers, and fundraisers substitute for the devotions of the faithful? Can marketing directors get those same faithful to forget about the sexual predators? These are serious and still largely unanswered questions. But there is a more vexing concern for some of us, even those of us used to imponderables such as the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin: where do you find a busload of nuns?

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When we read US media telling us these private freemason universities are growing in size----they are talking about ONLINE STUDENT populations.  Indeed, as our US public and private liberal arts and humanities colleges and universities are closed these OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% FREEMASON structures will remain----but they are MOVING FORWARD RACE TO TOP/COMMONER CORE as fast as CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA global banking pols and players tell them.

THAT BILLION-DOLLAR EMPIRE was of course these few decades of CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA defunding and dismantling our US public K-university.  This billion-dollar empire tied to OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS will do nothing for US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE---that 5% going under the bus in MOVING FORWARD.


Falwell as Smith and Ignatius Loyola are NOT exceptional business people----they are working for global banking 1% connecting all our Federal agencies to RAND/KNIGHTS OF MALTA-----which control all HIRING AND EMPLOYMENT which choose the universities from which they recruit---manufacturing WINNERS AND LOSERS in our US higher education.



When our US 5% freemason/Greeks allow these kinds of cronyism and corruption of our REAL free market economy fueled by strong public K-12----they end as LOSERS as well.




How Liberty University Built a Billion-Dollar Empire Online


With a hard sell to prospective students and huge amounts in taxpayer funding, Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed the evangelical institution into a behemoth.


By ALEC MacGILLIS/PROPUBLICAAPRIL 17, 2018

This article is a collaboration between The Times and ProPublica, the independent nonprofit investigative-journalism organization.


It was the start of the 2017 Fall Family Weekend at Liberty University, the school founded by Jerry Falwell Sr. 47 years ago in Lynchburg, Va., and the lines were especially long to get into the basketball arena for the mandatory thrice-weekly student convocation. There was a festive feel in the air — as usual, a live band kicked things off with some Christian rock.


Penny Nance, a newly named Liberty trustee who is the head of the socially conservative group Concerned Women for America, took the stage to say that with Donald Trump in the White House, the country was much closer to overturning Roe v. Wade and putting “true limits on the abortionist’s hand.” Tim Lee, a Texas preacher and evangelist who lost his legs in the Vietnam War, gave a sermon bemoaning “homosexuals and pornographers,” declaring that one problem with “pulpits today is that they’ve got a lot of girlie men in them.” A young man in front of me in a Nautica T-shirt clapped and shouted, “That’s right!”


Liberty is spread out on more than 7,000 acres overlooking Lynchburg, a former railroad-and-tobacco town on the James River below the Blue Ridge Mountains. The student body on campus is 15,500 strong, and the university employs more than 7,500 people locally. Throughout the university grounds, there is evidence of a billion-dollar capital expansion: mountains of dirt and clusters of construction equipment marking the site of the new business school; the $40 million football-stadium upgrade, to accommodate Liberty’s move into the highest level of N.C.A.A. competition; and the Freedom Tower, which at 275 feet will be the tallest structure in Lynchburg, capped by a replica of the Liberty Bell.


Jerry Falwell Jr., who has led the university since 2007, lacks the charisma and high profile of his father, who helped lead the rise of the religious right within the Republican Party. Yet what the soft-spoken Falwell, 55, lacks in personal aura, he has more than made up for in institutional ambition. As Liberty has expanded over the past two decades, it has become a powerful force in the conservative movement. The Liberty campus is now a requisite stop for Republican candidates for president — with George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney all making the pilgrimage — and many of Liberty graduates end up working in Republican congressional offices and conservative think tanks.


Liberty has also played a significant role in the rise of Donald Trump. Falwell was an early supporter of the reality-TV-star candidate, staying loyal through the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape and giving Trump a crucial imprimatur with white evangelical voters, who widely supported him at the polls. “The evangelicals were so great to me,” Trump said in an interview last year. The first commencement speech he gave as president, last spring, was at Liberty. And in August, Falwell stood by Trump following his much-criticized remarks on the violent rally by white supremacists in Charlottesville, declaring on “Fox & Friends” that “President Donald Trump does not have a racist bone in his body.”



Such steadfast allyship has prompted ridicule even from some fellow evangelical Republicans. But it makes more sense in light of an overlooked aspect of Liberty: its extraordinary success as a moneymaking venture. Like Trump, Falwell recognized the money to be made in selling success -- in this case, through the booming and lightly regulated realm of online higher education. Falwell’s university has achieved the scale and stature it has because he identified a market opportunity and exploited it.


The real driver of growth at Liberty, it turns out, is not the students who attend classes in Lynchburg but the far greater number of students who are paying for credentials and classes that are delivered remotely, as many as 95,000 in a given year. By 2015, Liberty had quietly become the second-largest provider of online education in the United States, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education, its student population surpassed only by that of University of Phoenix, as it tapped into the same hunger for self-advancement that Trump had with his own pricey Trump University seminars. Yet there was a crucial distinction: Trump’s university was a for-profit venture. (This month, a judge finalized a $25 million settlement for fraud claims against the defunct operation.) Liberty, in contrast, is classified as a nonprofit, which means it faces less regulatory scrutiny even as it enjoys greater access to various federal handouts.


By 2017, Liberty students were receiving more than $772 million in total aid from the U.S. Department of Education — nearly $100 million of it in the form of Pell grants and the rest in federal student loans. Among universities nationwide, it ranked sixth in federal aid. Liberty students also received Department of Veterans Affairs benefits, some $42 million in 2016, the most recent year for which figures are available. Although some of that money went to textbooks and nontuition expenses, a vast majority of Liberty’s total revenue that year, which was just above $1 billion, came from taxpayer-funded sources.


And it was no secret which part of the university was generating most of that revenue, said Chris Gaumer, a Liberty graduate and former professor of English there. “When I was there, at faculty meetings the commentary was that online was funding the school, while they were trying to just break even on the residential side,” he said. “It was understood that on the online side, they were making a killing.”

Jerry Falwell Sr. was raised in Lynchburg by a Christian mother and a nonbelieving father, whose knack for business gained him a small empire of restaurants, bus lines, nightclubs and gas stations and eventually carried him into bootlegging. Falwell cast this dual inheritance in the terms of a clash between God and the Enemy, but it was hard not to see his career as a successful fusing of his parents’ influences, salesmanship wrapped in Christian cloth.


He founded Thomas Road Baptist Church in the former offices of a bottling company in 1956 and soon began broadcasting recordings of his sermons on regional radio and television. In 1971, the same year his “Old Time Gospel Hour” went national, he founded Lynchburg Baptist College, subsidizing it with revenues from the show. “I believe there are thousands of young students who will catch the vision and who will carry what God is doing in Lynchburg to cities all over the continent and around the world,” he declared at the time, according to his 1996 autobiography. At first the college was scattered in rented spaces around town — a vacant high school, a Ramada Inn -- but by 1977 it had been renamed Liberty Baptist College and moved up to an initial 2,000-acre swath of land on the mountain.


By 1984, nearly 400 local broadcasters around the nation were carrying “The Old Time Gospel Hour.” The toll-free number flashing on the screen reportedly helped bring in more than $72 million per year in donations. Some $10 million of those funds flowed to the college, which at that point numbered about 4,500 students. Another of Falwell’s enterprises pulled in about $12 million a year — the Moral Majority, an attempt to build a cross-denominational political coalition against the common foes of abortion rights and, as he later put it, “moral permissiveness, family breakdown and general capitulation to evil and to foreign policies such as Marxism-Leninism.”



Liberty University, as it has been named since 1985, grew steadily, drawing families attracted by the “Liberty Way,” which forbade premarital sex, drinking, smoking and cussing. In 1987, it secured tax-exempt status, which Falwell described in his autobiography as an existential necessity: “If a tax exemption could not be granted us,” he wrote, “it would have been impossible to carry out the dream of a 50,000-student Christian university in Lynchburg.”


But another element of the business model — evangelical broadcasting’s aura of rectitude — was about to take a hit. That March, Jim Bakker resigned as head of the televangelist PTL ministry amid revelations of a sexual encounter with a former church secretary, Jessica Hahn, who received a payoff to keep quiet about it; Bakker later served just under five years in prison on a federal fraud conviction related to PTL’s fund-raising. In 1988, the televangelist Jimmy Swaggart declared, “I have sinned,” following reports of his consorting with a prostitute in New Orleans; three years later, the police pulled him over with another prostitute in Southern California.


No such scandals attached to Falwell, who succeeded Bakker as host of “The PTL Club.” But the bubble had burst. Amid what Falwell later referred to as the “credibility crunch” caused by the televangelist scandals, the college’s finances deteriorated. Within a few years, annual contributions dropped by $25 million; the college’s debt swelled to more than $100 million.


In 1996, the accrediting body overseeing Liberty presented a list of more than 100 “recommendations” for staying accredited, including a demand that it reduce its debt. Falwell went on a 40-day liquids-only fast, praying for deliverance. “I am certain that we will become a world-class university training champions for Christ in every important field of study,” Falwell vowed in his autobiography. “And I am asking God to give me more time to guide and fund that dream.”


One educational novelty that Falwell dabbled in, starting in the mid-’70s, was an early form of distance learning. Liberty would mail lecture videotapes and course packets to paying customers around the country — at first just certificate courses in Bible studies, and by the mid-’80s, accredited courses in other subjects as well. By the time of Liberty’s financial embattlement, other education innovators had taken the idea much further — none more so than a man named John Sperling.



Sperling was an unlikely capitalist entrepreneur. The son of a failed farmer in the Missouri Ozarks, he joined the Merchant Marine, embraced socialism and ended up receiving a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge. He got a job teaching at San Jose State University, where he took over the faculty union and led a big strike in 1968. His humble origins and early socialist leanings had given him a jaundiced view of elite schools, and his experience teaching a course to police officers and teachers as part of a federally funded effort to reduce juvenile delinquency furthered his belief that traditional colleges were leaving out a whole swath of Americans eager for higher education. He decided to start a university of his own — not a nonprofit but a for-profit, and not in California, where he had clashed with skeptical accreditors, but in the laxer regulatory climate of Arizona.


In 1976, Sperling rented space in a boilermakers’ union hall in Phoenix and started offering weekly classes there to eight students — all adults who’d had some college education and were looking to complete their degrees. A decade later, University of Phoenix had 6,000 students. But things really took off three years later, in 1989, when Sperling started offering M.B.A.s online through Prodigy, the early electronic communications service. Sperling took the university’s parent company public in 1994; by 2000, enrollment had reached 100,000.



By the early 2000s, for-profit colleges were booming: Access to the internet was spreading, and the Bush administration was employing a notably light regulatory touch, even as the programs were devouring an ever-greater share of federal student aid. Among the adopters of Sperling’s model was Falwell, who in 2004 began expanding the family’s primitive distance-learning programs into what would become known as Liberty University Online.


In his autobiography, Falwell praised Jerry Jr.’s business instincts, crediting him with saving Liberty from ruin through his management of its debt. “God sent him to me just in time,” he wrote. “He is more responsible, humanly speaking, for the miraculous financial survival of this ministry than any other single person.” When Falwell died in 2007 at age 73, his younger son, Jonathan, took over the pulpit at Thomas Road Baptist, and Jerry Jr. took over the university — an indication of where the heart of the ministry now was.


As the Great Recession hit, laid-off Americans turned to online education to seek a new economic foothold. After years of trying to save Liberty by cutting costs, Falwell Jr. said, he adopted his father’s vision of saving it through increasing revenues. In a recent telephone interview, Falwell described the surge in online enrollment as a kind of revelation. “It took us about 20 years to perfect” the distance-learning model, he said, “but when we did, that was about when everyone started getting high-speed internet in their homes, and we were the only nonprofit poised to serve that huge adult market of people who had not finished college or needed a master’s degree to get a promotion.”
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We have already discussed these issues of religious freedom and separation of church and state as religious public policy so we want to take just a day in discussing US PUBLIC EDUCATION to remind our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE what has allowed the US to have the strongest religious freedoms in world history. 

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE eliminated OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS from our AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT ----I AM MAN strong centuries-old public education.  The CHURCH for Christians as SYNAGOGUE for Jewish as MOSQUE for our Muslims as TEMPLE for our Buddhists/Hindi.

When US 99% WE THE PEOPLE allowed this contrived public policy as religions as NON-PROFITS----we opened the door to global banking KINGS AND QUEENS using religion in creating businesses.  NOT RELIGIOUS---- this is why in US the TAX-FREE status of religious buildings were tied to SANCTUARIES----and as we see below our religious SANCTUARIES were given a special legal status -----


NONE OF THIS PERTAINED TO FREEMASON  SCHOOLS---FREEMASON HOSPITALS---FREEMASON EMPLOYMENT CENTERS------ALL GLOBAL BANKING 1% ---NOT RELIGIOUS.

When global banking 1% use today's term SANCTUARY CITY/STATE they are again corrupting the policies tied to what was a religious designation for religious SANCTUARIES and it does not end well for our US 99% and our 99% of new immigrants since these policies are being written by global banking 1% killing 99% WE THE PEOPLE.


This term SANCTUARY CITY is tied to OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS and that STATE CHURCH as sanctuary....when US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES will have no religion.

It's a complete corruption of our centuries-old legal standings in religion and education having no intention of making things better for our 99% of citizens.

Places of Refuge: What Legal Basis for the Churches' Offer of 'Sanctuary'?


Neil Foster ABC Religion and Ethics 9 Feb 2016

Faced with criminal sanctions over their offer of 'sanctuary', churches may respond that the law recognises their right to free exercise of religion, or they may claim obedience to a higher law. Credit: Colors Hunter / Getty Images


In last week's high-profile decision of the High Court of Australia, Plaintiff M68-2015 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2016] HCA 1, a 6-1 majority ruled that the Australian government is entitled to continue its policy of detaining certain asylum seekers off-shore in the Pacific nation of Nauru.




In the aftermath of the decision, and in response to the plight of a group of mothers and their babies and young children who have been receiving medical treatment in Australia, and will now have to be returned to the dreadful conditions in Nauru, a number of Christian churches went public with an offer of "sanctuary" for those who are supposed to be returned.


It seems worthwhile to reflect on the legal issues surrounding "sanctuary" in Australia.



Background to the law of "sanctuary"



Most people would be aware that church buildings in the past were places of refuge, where some wrongdoers could seek sanctuary from arrest. This idea no doubt had its roots in the Bible, where in the Old Testament there are some recorded references to people seeking sanctuary at the altar of the Temple (see 1 Kings 1:49-53; 2:28-34).


The law of Moses also saw a system of "cities of refuge" (Joshua 20:1-6) where those who had committed what today would be called "involuntary manslaughter" could seek to flee from revenge at the hands of the family of the deceased.


In the early days of the common law of England, this was implemented by a system of sanctuary which applied in local churches in different ways. With the growing power of the secular monarchy, areas where wrongdoers could escape the King's justice were increasingly reduced, and in 1624 sanctuary as a common law doctrine was abolished by statute.


Any legal operation of the doctrine, then, was well and truly removed from the common law before the European settlement of Australia, and not part of that law which was "received" into our system.


In any event, the continuation of a law which gave special recognition to the status of church buildings was unlikely to have survived the process of Federation, where at least for the purposes of the Commonwealth, no "establishment" of religion was possible under s.116 of the Constitution.

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Here is a good public policy discussion on church and state outing global banking 1% and their corruption of our REAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES. More important for this week's education discussion is this----there has been a long history these several centuries of broad public education where FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT global banking 1% RELIGIOUS freemason schools move in to take over our public K-UNIVERSITY and then DISAPPEAR using FAR-RIGHT WING MARXIST policies.

We KNOW that is what is MOVING FORWARD today------as global banking tied to a RAND CORPORATION/MITRE CORPORATION controls all hiring and employment in US manufacturing WINNERS attending religious freemason schools and losers of our US broad private and public arts and humanities schools---VOILA---they will simply DISAPPEAR.

Please stop chasing WAG THE DOG for education and employment----even that 5% of US players are going under the bus in MOVING FORWARD. Remember that term WAG THE DOG was used during CLINTON ERA.




'wag the dog
to cause a persuasive movement in any large body of influence, i.e., a mass of people, through means by which a lesser influence is utilized'.



Our religions are in SANCTUARIES------religious freemason schools are the realm of global banking 1% KINGS AND QUEENS.


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Has/How has Russia gone from being a far-left communist state to a far-right nationalist state?

Christopher S. Mauch
Christopher S. Mauch, Political Afficiando
Answered Aug 26 2016 ·

I would argue that the modern Russian state isn’t ideologically all that different than its predecessor the Soviet Union. The reason why it might appear to have switched trajectories is due to the false dichotomy implicate in the “left/right” political spectrum. Left/Right aren’t particularly useful political terms in almost any context and become especially meaningless when you leave “western” political spheres.

Let’s take Saudi Arabia as an example. Is it a left wing country or a right wing country? Well, your knee jerk reaction might be to say that it is clearly a right wing country because it is ruled by both a an active monarchy and a very conservative religious class. But Saudi Arabia also has almost no free market to speak of. It’s economy is probably closer to Communist/Socialist ideals than China or Russia ever were.

While admittedly Saudi’s aren’t all paid an equal amount, the role of the state in the economy is hard to over emphasize. And furthermore, the services the government provides free to its citizens is basically unparalleled outside of the Arabian Peninsula.

What is liberal and what is conservative a both relative, and need to be looked at within the relevant contexts in which they exist. In the United States for example, conservatives typically advocate free markets, capitalism, and advocate unregulated access to guns. In many ex-soviet states conservatives advocate government intervention in the economy, gun control, and are very antagonistic towards free markets, globalism, or capitalism.

Another example of this is the “conservative” Communist Party of China vs. “conservative” American Republicans. Conservatives in China mandate the biggest abortion scheme in history, while Republicans in the United States’ opposition to Abortion is near hyperbolic proportions. Liberals in China are MORE likely to be religious than politically conservative Communist Party Members, who are more likely to be Atheists and antagonistic towards the idea of religion and it’s practice.

Now you specifically mentioned the Orthodox Church, so I will try to address it although I think it is both more and less important than you think. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia lost its “Communist” ideology that was very useful in controlling its population. The mantel of Marxist-Leninism having been pretty thoroughly discredited, it could not so easily be restored. That is where the Russian Orthodox Church comes in. You see, unlike Catholicism which is ruled/administered by the independent Holy Roman See and an elected Pope (much to the chagrin of the Communist Party in China) the Russian Orthodox Church is administered by the Russian Patriarch who serves only with the approval of the Russian State. This effectively makes the Russian Orthodox Church a very effective means of social/ideological control in lieu of Soviet Ideology (ironic isn’t it?)







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We shared a meme from 1932 titled PUBLIC EDUCATION THE CORNERSTONE OF AMERICA.  It showed back in last ROBBER BARON ROARING 20s systemic frauds directed by the same US FED, global banking 1% bringing the US down to economic collapse of course using that to defund our public schools.

The meme rightly shows a solid stone column with PUBLIC SCHOOLS at the bottom holding up INDUSTRY and INTEGRITY which holds up GOVERNMENT.  The attack by REAGAN/CLINTON in 1990s of our public schools defunding them and FORCING our administrators to seek CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP------MOVING FORWARD today in RACE TO THE TOP------clearly shows our breakdown in GOVERNMENT due to loss of INTEGRITY in INDUSTRY.


Global banking 1% does this deliberately only unlike ROARING 20s ROBBER BARON few decades there is no intent of REBUILDING our strong several century's old PUBLIC SCHOOLS.  We have seen these few decades all our public K-university going to build global education corporations.

During REAGAN/CLINTON there was massive protest from parents in communities across the US against this defunding and ESPECIALLY against corporate patronage.


'The budget includes $2.8 billion for operating expenses and $1.1 billion for capital investment. It also includes more than $350 million of support to City Schools'.

For those not knowing Baltimore City history and its public schools----today's MAYOR PUGH was Clinton-era MOVING FORWARD public funding for higher education to private global corporate trade schools.  While Baltimore City K-12 was being starved of all funding with Federal funds misappropriated to private schools our Baltimore public universities were starved and low-functioning.  MAYOR PUGH was dean of one of those corporate colleges.  Flash forward to RACE TO THE TOP hyper-corporatization of all US public schools filled with corporate patronage, our students are totally ensconced in corporate lessons, corporations staffing our schools, corporations setting teaching agenda, and of course our school buildings growing with corporate advertisement.

Below we see the latest MEDIA PROPAGANDA about Baltimore City schools.  We are led to believe our city budget spends more on youth and less on police-----but what we do not see is we now have police in all our schools as employees paid by what was once a public school employee providing education services.

REMEMBER, BALTIMORE IS FAR AHEAD IN INSTALLING US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE GLOBAL MILITARIZED AND PRIVATIZED POLICING.



FY2018
Baltimore City preliminary budget spends more on education & youth over police



Mallory Sofastaii
5:54 PM, Mar 29, 2017
6:43 AM, Mar 30, 2017







BALTIMORE, Md. - For the first time in a long time, the Baltimore City budget plan invests more in education and youth development than policing.



On Wednesday, Mayor Catherine Pugh released the preliminary fiscal 2018 budget plan.
The budget includes $2.8 billion for operating expenses and $1.1 billion for capital investment. It also includes more than $350 million of support to City Schools.



Currently, Baltimore City Schools faces a budget gap of $130 million. Earlier this week, Governor Larry Hogan pledged nearly $24 million in assistance and the City is expected to contribute more than $22 million in bridge funding and $90 million in total over the next three years.


“This is a milestone, historic moment. Our funding education and youth development exceeds the police department budget,” said Andrew Kleine, the budget director for the City of Baltimore.


Of the $3.9 billion budget plan, $512 million will fund City Schools and youth programs, which tops the $497 million set aside for police.


“Commitment to youth, absolutely a commitment to youth, transparency, and holding department heads accountable for their budgets,” said Baltimore City Mayor Catherine Pugh.



The City plan also includes a $5.5 million dollar base reduction to the police budget in addition to getting overtime spending under control.


“We've got nine days of Light City, which I'm really excited about but that's nine days of overtime by our police officers. When you think about Artscape and all these other events that's overtime for our police officers that takes someone out of a patrol into these particular areas and I think we have to look at that and couch it differently,” said Mayor Pugh.



Mayor Pugh did not specify what programs or services would be cut from the police budget. Most other city services will be funded at current levels.


The City was also able to close a $20 million dollar shortfall through increased property and income tax revenue and a new funding source. The City plans to relaunch the red light and speed camera program, which is estimated to generate nearly $8 million in revenue. The program is expected to be rolled out no earlier than June.



“Certainly we'll be grateful for the revenue but one of the things we look at, as Kleine has cautioned me on this, because as people get used to the cameras they will slow down, they will stop running red lights so it becomes also regressive. So, it's not something that we want to depend on, we really want to grow our city to increase our revenue,” Mayor Pugh said.


Another key factor in how the City balances its book is federal funding, and President Trump wants to make some cuts.

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We don't want to list the names of all global corporations having moved into our public K-university these few decades of REAGAN/CLINTON attack on US public education filling our public K-university with the widespread corporate frauds and global banking frauds during ROBBER BARON fleecing of our Federal, state, and local government coffers-----here in Baltimore City even our public school buildings and real estate were handed to global investment firms under the guise of $1 BILLION SCHOOL BUILDING BONDS.

Of course global COMMONER CORE and global education testing met global TEACH FOR AMERICA private teachers now moving forward private police as public K-university employees.

What we want to do this week is remember what worked in our US public schools and remind today's 99% US WE THE PEOPLE and our immigrant citizens that there was broad consensus on left and right wing against this defunding, against the injection of corporations and even corporate advertising because we had tons of research and education development showing ALL THIS WAS BAD FOR OUR CHILDREN AS STUDENTS.


Here is the Bill 1090 being debated------it is Baltimore City by MAYOR PUGH-----pretending to be a PUBLIC EDUCATION funding bill-------Baltimore's education system is being completely captured by global neo-liberal corporate campus K-12======nothing public in Baltimore public schools............SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATION SERVICES------means-----more and more and more outsourced global NGO education corporations to attach to our 'public' schools whose staff is being eliminated.

Below media sells this bill as a win for public K-12 when in fact all that SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING will go to pay SCHOOL BOND BILLS tied to what are already privately-owned schools once called PUBLIC SCHOOLS.



 EXPLANATION: CAPITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW .



[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law. *sb1090*
SENATE BILL 1090 F1 2lr3436 CF HB 1450
By:
Senator Pugh
Introduced and read first time: March 5, 2012
Assigned to: Rules
A BILL ENTITLED AN ACT  concerning Public Schools
–

Provision of Supplemental Educational Services


Our local and national media STILL selling these corporate policies in education as WINS for our 99% students black, white, and brown children.



FOOD & DRINK
12/10/2015 12:12 pm ET



The Problem Is Gross School Lunch. These High Schoolers Are Fixing It.


Students at a Chicago high school blame the district’s contractor for serving meals they say are worse than prison food. And they’re getting results.

By Joseph Erbentraut

Credit: Jasmine Castillo/The School Lunch Project


A recent lunch at Roosevelt High School in Chicago. Students say the food being served at their cafeteria is barely edible.



A group of students at a Chicago public high school on the city’s northwest side is calling for higher quality, healthier food to be served at their cafeteria — inspiring real change that could be felt citywide. 



“We want our school to be better,” Jacquez Conwell, a junior at Roosevelt High School participating in the student protest of the “crap” meals, told HuffPost. “It’s not fair for us kids, us teenagers, to go through the day where we’re not satisfied. And if we’re not satisfied, we’re not learning anything and we’re not focused.”



Conwell is one of many Roosevelt students participating in a campaign that’s been titled The School Lunch Project.
Late last month, students debuted their website featuring photos of unappetizing food they’ve been served at school, including images of still-frozen fruit cups, spoiled produce and questionable meat.



The students also included a list of their proposals for change, including the option to have off-campus lunch, the addition of vending machines in the school and asking for more options beyond milk or water to drink. Students would also like more diverse entrees beyond the heavily processed foods typically available and they claim pizza, a fried chicken patty or a hamburger are their only options most days.


“Lunch time is the time where you eat and enjoy your free time,” the students’ website reads. “It’s supposed to be the place where students get the best healthy lunches like salads, sandwiches, fresh fruits, etc. Instead they give some gross, unhealthy food.”



The campaign started as a project in a civics class taught by Tim Meegan and grew from an online initiative first reported by WBEZ’s Monica Eng into a student boycott of the lunches served at Roosevelt that has received coverage by dozens of media outlets both local and national.

Their message is being heard. On Tuesday, Meegan and a group of students took part in a meeting with officials representing Chicago Public Schools and Aramark.



Philadelphia-headquartered Aramark was awarded the district’s $97 million-a-year catering contract in 2013, a deal made under circumstances the CPS inspector general deemed “questionable.” The company, which also holds a $260 million contract covering custodial duties for the district, is no stranger to criticism for the services it has provided.


As a result of the meeting, Meegan reported CPS and Aramark officials asked students at Roosevelt to monitor their meals through the year’s end and report back on any issues and invited them to choose a group of five students comprising a Student Dining Committee to take part in a taste testing to evaluate new foods to join the school’s meal rotation.


Students’ reactions to the meeting were “mixed,” Meegan admitted, as there was some frustration that it would take up to three months to incorporate new menu items and students felt concerns about their food’s quality, rather than how it was prepared, went ignored. Still, he said they are “cautiously optimistic” the food will improve for the better.



Aramark currently provides food services for some 380 school districts nationwide and custodial services for more than 130 districts.


The company also provides food services for correctional facilities, including the Michigan Department of Corrections, which ended its contract with Aramark earlier this year due to issues including employee misconduct and sanitation concerns including maggots being found inside a prison kitchen.
On their website, students allege that some prisons under contract with Aramark are actually being served better food than they are.


David Katz, a nutritionist and instructor in medicine at Yale’s School of Public Health, shared Meegan and the students’ concerns about the quality of the food at Roosevelt after viewing photos the students had posted to their website. 

Recipes that are worth your time, useful kitchen how-tos and genius food facts.“I am entirely on the side of the students here. The food does, indeed, look ‘nasty’ as they say, and doubtless has a taste to match,” Katz wrote in an e-mail.



While recognizing that the resources of the district are limited, considering that all the students qualify for free meals under a federal policy change enacted last year, he pointed to the work of groups like Revolution Foods and Real Food For Kids as examples of school lunch vendors that provide affordable, high-quality meals for students in the communities they serve.



“Better nutrition, and the cultivation of healthy eating, is a very worthwhile investment,” Katz added. ”We have rampant childhood obesity and diabetes. Better food is the remedy, and schools could be leading the way. Instead, in this case, they are clearly holding us back.”


In response to the students’ campaign, CPS spokeswoman Emily Bittner said in a statement that the district “is committed to serving healthy and nutritious meals to its students” and added that they are “look[ing] forward to working together to address their needs.”



Bittner added that CPS already works with both student and parent advocacy groups to receive feedback on the district’s meal planning and is “working to eliminate highly processed, high sodium and high fat foods.”


For its part, Aramark spokeswoman Karen Cutler said in a statement that the company “applaud[s] the students’ initiative and value[s] their feedback, and will regularly review our operations to make sure we continue to comply with all USDA regulations and meet our high quality standards for the breakfast and lunch meals we serve to 375,000+ CPS students each day across 660 facilities.”



Cutler added in a previous statement that the company was “surprised that we never heard any of these complaints from anyone since school opened in September.”



Meegan, who earlier this year ran for Chicago’s City Council in an unsuccessful challenge of incumbent Alderman Deb Mell in the city’s 33rd ward, said he was not surprised that officials were surprised to learn of the students’ complaints.

“I think the fact that Aramark and CPS don’t get more complaints from parents about the food has to do with the idea that nothing will change more so than the idea that there’s nothing wrong,” Meegan said.



His students are now looking to expand the campaign to include students at other CPS schools who share similar concerns about their lunches.


Meegan believes the campaign imparts an important lesson to his classes.



“This is a very daunting task,” Meegan said. “But this is an important lesson for civics students because they’re going to be dealing with bureaucracies for the rest of their lives. The question of how you make change within a large system like this is still a valid one we haven’t fully answered yet. The skills and tactics students learn in conducting these projects I hope will serve them well throughout their lives.”
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All 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE know corporations in our public schools is bad public policy and yet it keeps MOVING FORWARD. Anyone supporting COMMONER CORE and global education testing wants to KILL OUR AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM making it third world DARK AGES.



We read national journal articles telling us CHARTERS are winning but are they really if both right wing and left wing 99% of WE THE PEOPLE don't want corporate K-12? Of course not----corporate charters are not winning---that 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek global banking player is the only thing allowing global banking 1% to install these ONE WORLD ONE COMMONER CORE K-career structures.



It will be EASY PEASY to reverse these education policies we simply need to remember what WORKED for centuries having the mission of education a 99% of US citizens to be citizens and able to participate in REAL free market economies.



NO MYTH-MAKING OR CORPORATE PROPAGANDA IN US PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY.

TOTAL immersion of our US public K-12 to all that is corporation and advertising/marketing.


Common Core Critics Are Loud But Losing


The nationwide pushback against the education standards hasn't been very successful.


by Alan Greenblatt | April 2015






Common Core has become a toxic brand, the most contentious issue on the education landscape, reviled by partisans at both ends of the political spectrum.
That doesn’t mean it’s going away.



For all the pushback against the Common Core -- a set of standards that outline the content and skills students are expected to master at each grade level -- more than 40 states are still on board. Efforts to repeal the Common Core this year in Arkansas and Mississippi, for instance, led instead to commissions that will study the issue.


“The impression in the media is that there’s all this controversy and therefore this thing must be dead,” says Michael Petrilli, president of the Fordham Institute, an education think tank that backs the standards. “But the full-court press by Tea Party groups to get Republican legislators to repeal the Common Core has only been successful in Oklahoma.”
The effort to improve educational standards and make American students more competitive with their international peers was led several years ago by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with backing from the Gates Foundation. Common Core really took off, though, with the Race to the Top grant program that was part of the 2009 federal stimulus package. States that embraced the standards had a better chance of getting extra money under the program.


In hindsight, Petrilli says, having the feds promote the standards was a “huge mistake.” The push from the Obama administration did make it seem that Common Core was an example of federal overreach, says Cheryl Oldham, vice president of the Center for Education and Workforce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That opened the door to criticism from partisans skeptical about anything coming out of the Obama White House. Problems with implementation and confusion stemming from some of the standards served to increase complaints.


But most states are now four or five years into the process. Ending Common Core would mean a lot of wasted effort and money. And business groups such as the Chamber of Commerce -- as well as many teachers -- have been able to convince enough legislators that elevated standards should remain a priority. That means any obituary of the Common Core is decidedly premature. “The words ‘Common Core’ represent something that a lot of people don’t like,” Oldham says, “but the concept of higher standards for all is still a really solid one.”


Common Core is proceeding in most states. In places like Indiana, the brand name may have gotten dropped, but the essential elements remain intact. This spring, standardized tests based on the standards are being rolled out in schools all over the country. “Over a period of time, the best way to defend it is to see the results,” says Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, one of the original leaders in pushing for the standards.



Markell says that simply having parents witness teachers offer lessons based on the Common Core has helped to demystify it in his state. “The typical response when they leave those classrooms is, ‘Wow, that seemed a whole lot like math or English language arts, as opposed to some kind of communist plot for the federal government to take over education.’”


Common Core supporters aren’t resting easy. Opposition to the standards has become something like a litmus test for GOP presidential candidates in 2016. But proponents are starting to feel as though the program will remain intact, at least in most places. “I’m not worried about it,” says Chris Cabaldon, the mayor of West Sacramento, Calif. “A majority of states are still on track. They have weathered the worst of it.”
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This conversation below in 2012 was the same conversation in 1980s ---90s------this is not new IT IS ONGOING while global banking 1% simply keep MOVING FORWARD.  Here in Baltimore we see our public school students bearing UNDERARMOUR everything because UNDERARMOUR pays no corporate taxes, gets a billion dollars in corporate subsidy in exchange for them being PATRONS. As PATRONS, UNDERARMOUR gets to tell us what our public K-university will do----how it will look----how it will operate---and how our children as students will be treated.

NOT A BAD DEAL FOR GLOBAL UNDERARMOUR-----known these few decades to be brutal, enslaving, and environmentally devastating in FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES overseas.  That's what we want in our Baltimore southwest ------OH, REALLY??


Same labor and justice policy discussions over 30 years never changing because our government is filled with OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% pols and players.  Our US government human resources KNIGHTS OF MALTA because CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA now TRUMP work for those OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS.

To FIX BALTIMORE as all our US city schools we must stop MOVING FORWARD corporate K-university as these corporate policies are now on steroids.

Why are US 99% of citizens silent today when we were marching and protesting in the millions in 1980s-90s?  We have FEAR AND INTIMIDATION with corporate K-UNIVERSITY tied to FEAR AND INTIMIDATION in stagnant US employment due to global corporate campus control of our government.



Why schools and corporate brands shouldn’t mix
March 28, 2012 11.20pm EDT


The furore following the announcement that Jenny Craig CEO Amy Smith would address a gathering of hundreds of girls’ school teachers has once again brought the uncomfortable issue of corporate presence in schools to light.


The public response – that school groups should not be seen to endorse the dieting industry – is certainly warranted. But such corporate presence in education is really just the tip of the iceberg.


Over the past two decades, fast food companies, financial institutions, supermarkets and other businesses have found increasingly innovative ways to build brand awareness among not only teachers, but also a captive and impressionable audience of school children.


Positive associations


As much as we try to rationalise our consumer choices, many of our decisions are automatic. This makes sense – thinking through every decision would take enormous effort, so our brains have to be efficient. If we have strong associations, the brand is familiar and it’s convenient for us to buy the product, we flick the switch to automatic: “let’s just buy it”.


Businesses sponsor schools to increase sales and generate product loyalty. And schools provide companies with the opportunity to expose their brand to large numbers of children and adolescents in a contained setting.


So when executives representing PepsiCo’s Gatorade brand approach a secondary school to talk to students about fitness and hydration, teachers become complicit (and unpaid promoters) in a corporate marketing activity.


Similarly, when Coles asks schools to collect coupons for sporting equipment, they are reinforcing positive associations with the Coles brand. And in the highly competitive retail environment, every tiny association counts.


And when kindergarten fund-raising drives are built around sales of Freddo Frogs and Caramello Koalas, they are doing a long-term branding favour for Cadbury (owned by Kraft Foods).


Sponsorship deals can even allow businesses to undertake market research in the school environment, from gathering basic data about attitudes to the brand, through to gaining detailed insights into the consumer behaviour of adolescents and younger children. This data influences future strategies, product development and promotional activities.


Over time, schools become reliant on corporate funds and may incrementally reduce barriers to a brand’s involvement in the school. What starts out as a simple poster thanking the brand for their sponsorship, may lead to preference of that brand’s products over others at the school.


As far as the company is concerned, this is part of a broader corporate brand strategy – it’s marketing 101.
Bad habitsWhen health psychology researcher Jennifer Harris and her colleagues at Yale University examined the impact of advertising on adult and child food choices, they found both groups were primed to eat more food when they were exposed to advertising.



Children consumed 45% more unhealthy snack foods during and after exposure to snack food advertising, while adults consumed more of both healthy and unhealthy food during exposure. Harris argues this shows a direct causal link between food advertising and greater snack consumption, which further contradicts industry claims that “advertising affects only brand preferences and not overall nutrition”.


A single exposure to a brand message, or some posters or branding in the school gymnasium, is not harmless. All brand messages, whether delivered on school grounds, or outside the school, add up to an incremental inevitability that the child will favour one brand over another, and one product over another.



If children are consistently exposed to a particular brand (say, McDonald’s) in an environment where they are educated, they will make unconscious (and positive) links to that brand. If they then see the brand on television, on outdoor advertising, even the logo as they drive past the store, this connection is reinforced.
So when it comes to making a choice about take-away food (which most families indulge in from time to time), it becomes easier to choose that brand. It’s also relatively cheap to buy, and provides instant rewards in the form of sugar, fat and salt.


Parental control

Usual defences against corporate influence, such as parents controlling their child’s healthy eating, are circumvented by this type of marketing. Parents are not with their children when they are exposed to these positive brand messages and the school’s implicit support of the brand reduces parents’ ability to counter the influence.


Of course, parents are able to say no to their children when they insist on eating at a particular fast food restaurant. But this becomes more difficult to defend when the child’s recall is strong and powerful – marketers call this “pester power”.


The objective of schools (and teachers) is to provide children and young adults with the skills to contribute to society, through the development of knowledge, critical thinking and social skills.


The objectives of corporations are somewhat more prosaic – they are to sell their products, and make a return for their shareholders and owners. Although many of these large businesses work hard to promote their corporate social responsibility credentials, the bottom line is paramount. This is why most corporate social responsibility (CSR) divisions reside in the marketing area - it’s primarily seen as a marketing and promotional activity.


Of course children should be exposed to the outside world, and the corporate world forms part of this exposure. But marketing is all about trust and the promise of a better life. School councils and principals must consider this influence before allowing the corporate sector into their schools.

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We have moved away from whether a public school should have VENDING MACHINES filled with corporate products with goals of having our 99% not only pay those taxes for schools but to encourage our children to spend MORE money on vending products all to fund community schools. Today, that issue has been completely LOST as the argument has become HEALTHY VENDING PRODUCTS being better than snack products even as we discussed in detail HEALTHY VENDING PRODUCTS are not healthy.

We get teased for supporting these same structures when we buy our morning coffee at PRIVATE VENDOR spaces in Baltimore public universities. Those vendors are of course installed to act as revenue sources for our now corporate universities. Never had private vendors on university campuses before CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA because our public schools dealt only with EDUCATION. When right wing shouts that public agencies kill FREE MARKET ----they are confusing PRIVATIZATION of public agencies with global corporations killing our local free market economies.

WE LOVE OUR VENDORS----WE COULD HAVE THOSE JOBS AS REAL PUBLIC EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT PAYING MORE.



Use of Vending Machines in School Meal Programs

Nutrition Services Division Management Bulletin
Purpose: Policy

To: School Nutrition Program Sponsors
Number: USDA-SNP-02-2009

Attention: Food Service Directors
Business Officials
Directors of Purchasing

Date: March 2009

Subject: Use of Vending Machines in School Meal Programs

Reference: United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, Policy Memos SP-03-2007, Vending Machines in School Meal Programs; and SP 13-2008, Use of Vending Machines in School Meals Programs


This Management Bulletin (MB) provides information from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) regarding the use of vending machines in school meal programs.



The USDA Food and Nutrition Service (USDA) is aware that there is a growing interest among school food authorities (SFAs) to use vending machines in school meal programs. The following information provides interim guidance for SFAs that are considering whether a meal vending machine could be successfully incorporated into their National School Lunch (NSLP) and School Breakfast Programs (SBP). We are including a series of questions and answers below from the USDA regarding the use of vending machines.
SFAs must be aware that any vending machine that provides a reimbursable school meal represents an extension of school food service operations. Therefore, school meal vending machines are subject to the same program regulations, procedures, menu planning requirements, competitive food rules, and Offer versus Serve requirements that are applicable to meals offered on a regular service line with a cashier. Also, as a reminder, any use of “Program” (cafeteria) funds used in obtaining and maintaining vending machines to provide reimbursable meals must be in accordance with the applicable procedures set forth in Title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 210.21, concerning the procurement of supplies, food, equipment, and services.



SFAs are responsible for ensuring that vending machines used to serve reimbursable meals are operated in compliance with program regulations. For example, the SFA must ensure that vending machines can properly dispense a reimbursable meal, accurately document when a reimbursable meal has been selected and served to each student, and track each meal by each student’s meal eligibility category (e.g. free, reduced-price, and paid). Moreover, SFAs must ensure that the use of vending machines does not allow an eligible student to receive more than one reimbursable meal per service period (e.g., one meal through the traditional meal line and a second meal through the vending machine). Also, it is critical that identity confirmation procedures do not overtly identify a child as receiving a free or reduced-price meal, as this is not allowed by federal and state laws. Additionally, all reimbursable school meals, including vended meals, must be priced as a unit.



Prior to using vending machines to serve reimbursable meals, USDA requires SFAs to notify the California Department of Education (CDE) of their intent to do so. The SFA would then include the vending machines in any administrative reviews (Coordinated Review Efforts “CREs”) to ensure that these machines and their use comply with NSLP and SBP regulations.



The USDA recognizes that vending machines play an expanding role in the operation of the NSLP and SBP. Personnel policies, labor costs, pressure on lunch room space, class schedules, and the limited duration of lunch-time periods all contribute to the need to explore more efficient and effective methods of delivering these important nutritional benefits to students. It is also critical that SFAs ensure the proper delivery of program services to students without unnecessarily inhibiting innovation. In addition, the NSD requires that SFAs include a standard operating procedure (SOP) that specifically addresses food safety considerations for vending machines in their school food safety program based on Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) principles (if it is not already included in the HACCP SOPs).



The CDE, Nutrition Services Division (NSD) has developed a Policy Statement Addendum for vending machines, which can be found in the Child Nutrition Information and Payment System, in Download Forms. SFAs may use this form (1) to notify the NSD of their intent to utilize vending machines, and (2) as an Addendum to their current Free and Reduced-Price Meal Policy Statement covering meal count and collection procedures (MCCPs) for the vending machine. Please note that MCCPs are site specific and must be submitted to the NSD for approval as district procedures change.



Due to the developing nature of FNS guidance regarding the operation and management of vending machines in the NSLP or SBP, please direct all related questions to the NSD’s School Nutrition Programs Unit at 916-445-0850 or your Field Services Unit Child Nutrition Consultant at 800-952-5609.

Questions and Answers Regarding Vending Machines
in Federal School Meal Programs




  1. Are reimbursable meals offered through vending machines subject to the Offer vs. Serve (OVS) provisions?
Yes, as stated in the United States Department of Agriculture SP-03-2007 memo, vending machines offering reimbursable meals are subject to the same procedures, menu planning requirements, competitive food rules, and OVS requirements that are applicable to meals offered on a service line with a cashier.
  1. If a vending machine runs out of one or more components of a reimbursable meal, are meals still reimbursable?
No. Once a component is no longer available, OVS is not properly being implemented. The vending machine must become unavailable to students for the purpose of serving reimbursable meals. A “complete meal” means a meal containing all planned components/menu items, before the exclusion of components/menu items permitted when using OVS.
  1. In a school offering OVS, does predetermination of menu selections in a vending machine (resulting in a “less than complete” set of choices while others may have a different set of choices) undermine the intent of the OVS requirement?
No. This is similar to multiple service lines in which every line may not offer all items. At a minimum, any vending machine used as part of the school meal programs must be able to dispense a complete meal. We encourage schools to stock as wide a variety of meal choices as possible for students utilizing these machines, but understand that the choices may not be as robust as those offered in a traditional service line.
  1. How is a student’s free, reduced-price, or paid meal eligibility tracked when using a vending machine?
In order to distribute reimbursable meals, the school must be able to determine the student’s eligibility status, regardless of whether they use a vending machine or a traditional serving line. The school district must include this process in their point of service system and procedures.
  1. Do vending machines need to allow a student to add money to his/her account and/or pay the difference between the account balance and the price of the item to be purchased if the student does not have sufficient funds in his/her pre-paid account?
Vending machines do not have to accept money from students, but there does have to be a mechanism for the student who has money to participate in the meal program. This mechanism could be that (1) a student provides money to a school representative who then adds money to the student’s account so that funding is available for the meal; or (2) the district assures that the student has access to a traditional meal service line that accepts cash.
  1. Are vending machines limited to the same time restrictions as other types of lunch service (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.) when serving lunch under the National School Lunch Program?
Yes.
  1. Do the student identifiers (name, ID number, biometric, cashier, etc.) for a vending machine need to be the same as used in a traditional meal service line?
The reimbursable school meal vending machine must have the same number of identifiers as the traditional meal service line, but the student identifiers do not have to be the same. For example, a cashier may be an identifier in a traditional line, along with a student’s unique PIN. The vending machine used in the school would need to use equivalent student identifiers, but they could be a biometric check and a PIN.
  1. What does my district or agency need to do before purchasing and setting up vending machines to dispense meals?
    1. Complete the Policy Statement Addendum for MCCPs at http://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/sn/documents/psmccpvendmach.doc and submit for pre-approval.
    2. Follow federal and State procurement procedures for the purchase of any vending machine.
    3. Ensure that the machine can maintain the confidentiality/privacy for each student’s meal eligibility status.
    4. Follow the guidance provided in this MB.
Questions:   Nutrition Services Division | 800-952-5609
Last Reviewed: Wednesday, January 17, 2018

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As national media has 99% WE THE PEOPLE debating vending or not------snack food vs FAKE healthy food-----they are MOVING FORWARD to eliminating all cafeteria employees with global robotic vending machines. So, our children will not interact with those cafeteria ladies--------no need for THOSE PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES.
We are where we are today because 99% WE THE PEOPLE keep allowing our US elections to be rigged and fraudulent by corrupt global banking 5% players. Here we have a foreign corporation filling our US public schools because AMERICANS are too uneducated to operate businesses.

Of course PIZZA is healthy because it is gluten free, wheat crust, thin crust, olive oil, or sans cheese---only none of that is true....it is advertising and marketing.




Company Bets Robotic Vending Machine Pizza Is A Winner


June 21, 201210:52 AM ET    Eliza Barclay NPR


We eat a lot of pizza in this country: 46 slices, or 23 pounds, of pizza a year per person, according to PizzaMarketplace.com. Some would say all the cheese on all that pizza is one reason we've got an obesity problem.


But the pizza industry, which nets $32 billion a year, thinks we could be eating even more. Sure, we've got classic pizzerias, home delivery, frozen pizzas, pizzas ready to take home and bake, pizza food trucks. But there's got to be some other way to sell that winning combination of wheat dough, tomatoes, and cheese, right?



We can thank some Italians — yes, the prideful original pizza makers and the people who invented Slow Food — and their Dutch partners for the newest addition to the pizza landscape: A superfast pizza-from-scratch vending machine. The company, A1 Concepts, says it's now shipping machines to Atlanta, the city it's betting will be its best entry point into the mammoth American pizza market.


Let's Pizza, as the machine is called, has been a hit in Europe, A1 CEO Ronald Rammers tells PizzaMarketplace.com. "Once people discover the quality of the pizza and the convenience and, indeed, the speed factor, we expect to have competition in our favor," he says.



Speed his vending machine does promise — 2.5 minutes for the machine to mix and knead the dough, squirt some tomato sauce on it, cover it with cheese and other toppings, and pop it in an infrared oven, which scorches it in a minute or so. Get a closer look in this video:

But getting pizza from a robot machine is a far cry from watching real live pizza makers who take pride in careful kneading and daring tosses of the dough. This pizza is made by robotic hands kneading and squirting and pulling the finished pizza from the oven.



As The Atlantic Cities noted in their post on the machine, it's a little odd that it's being marketed as "untouched by human hands" and prepared in a "human-free environment."

But for the price — $5.95 for an 11-inch pizza is what the company suggests — it may be just the thing for people who want a quick, hot snack and don't want to interact with anyone to get it. And if the buzz rippling off the cupcake ATM and sushi bots is any indicator, Americans will happily eat pizza from a machine, too — as long as it tastes something like their beloved pizza.



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'Strayer Education Inc. (NASDAQ: STRA), which was established in 1996'.


This is Baltimore City's current mayor PUGH----and here is where our Federal public K-university funding went during REAGAN/CLINTON while our 99% of parents and students were protesting public school funding cuts. STRAYER of course is only one now global education corporation created from allowing our public K-12 school crumble.



'From there, her career only diversified. At one time or another, she has been a print journalist, a talk show host, the dean of Strayer Business College (now Strayer University) in Baltimore, and director of citizens involvement under Mayor William Donald Schaefer'.


So, of course we would not look to a PUGH to FIX Baltimore public schools for our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE----PUGH as our Maryland Gov Hogan is REALLY making sure US citizens have no access to REAL PUBLIC EDUCATION or REAL INFORMATION.


Strayer University is a United States-based private, for-profit higher education institution. It was founded in 1892 as Strayer's Business College and later became Strayer College, before being granted university status in 1998. Strayer University operates under the holding company, Strayer Education Inc. (NASDAQ: STRA), which was established in 1996.



The university enrolls about 40,000 students through its online learning programs, and at 78 campuses located in 15 U.S. States and Washington D.C. The university specializes in degree programs for working adults and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in subjects such as accounting, business administration, criminal justice, education, health services administration, information technology and public administration.


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'At least 40 states have one or more districts implementing competency education, and that number is growing, according to a 2013 KnowledgeWorks report with the most up to date numbers on the trend'.




As we see our GLOBAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 'PUBLIC MEDIA' PBS AND NPR are quite the cheerleaders for global COMMONER CORE and ONE WORLD ONE GLOBAL CORPORATE EDUCATION.



We have discussed in detail how these corporate education data are all JUKED to show improvements where there are none hiding much of the harm as more and more children are filtered out of public K-12


The INCOMPETENCY of corporate education policy is now telling 99% WE THE PEOPLE and our children what is COMPETENT. Remember, the goal of DARK AGES education was always making sure 99% of people have no idea what is happening in the world around them.


Grade levels could be a thing of the past in schools focused on competency

Education May 13, 2015 2:55 PM EDT

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Anika Anand and Ann Schimke on May 11, 2015

In a suburb just outside of Denver, Principal Sarah Gould stands outside a fifth-grade classroom at Hodgkins Elementary School watching students work. This classroom, she explains, is for students working roughly at grade level. Down the hall, there are two other fifth-grade classrooms. One is labeled “Level 2 and 3,” for students who are working at the second and third-grade levels. The other is for students who are working at a middle-school level.



But some of these students won’t necessarily stay in these classrooms for the whole school year. The students will move to new classrooms when they’ve mastered everything they were asked to learn in their first class. This can happen at any time during the year.
“We have kids move every day. It’s just based on when they’re ready,” Gould said.


Six years ago, Hodgkins Elementary worked the same way most schools and districts do: Students were assigned to a class for a fixed amount of time and were promoted when the time ended, assuming that they had gained the skills they needed for the next class — and sometimes even if they had not.


Now, the school is part of a growing movement toward “competency-based education,” which replaces “seat time” with skills as the main standard for whether students are promoted. Competency-based education goes by many names — mastery-based, proficiency-based and performance-based education — but the idea is the same: Students are measured by what they’ve learned, not the amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom.


REMEMBER, BEFORE THESE EDUCATION REFORMS PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME AND YEARS TO TEACH SUBJECT CONTENT...WHAT CHANGED?  REDUCTION OF SUBJECTS AND CONTENT.


Innovations in technology and how teachers can monitor students’ progress, along with changes to regulations about how long students must spend in class, have made it possible for schools and districts to adopt competency-based systems in an effort to use students’ time in school more effectively.


At least 40 states have one or more districts implementing competency education, and that number is growing, according to a 2013 KnowledgeWorks report with the most up to date numbers on the trend.
But competency-based education doesn’t look the same across the country. In fact, advocates say schools and districts fall on a “competency continuum,” based on which aspects of competency education they’ve implemented.



When advocates talk about a “pure” model of competency education, they describe a model that isn’t bound by grade levels or the Carnegie unit, a measure of the amount of time a student has studied a subject in class. At that end of the spectrum, schools like Hodgkins or New York City’s Olympus Academy have essentially gotten rid of standard K-12 grade levels and only move students to the next learning level if they’ve proven they’ve mastered the concepts. (The schools generally must track students by grade level for funding and state testing purposes, even if their classes are not designed for single-age cohorts. Some advocates, including officials in Hodgkins’s district, want state policies changed to allow competency-based learning schools to track students differently.)


“Education systems in the past have been notorious for jumping on bandwagons but nothing substantially changes under the surface. In our model everything has changed under the surface,” said Oliver Grenham, chief education officer of Hodgkins’s district, Adams County School District 50 in Colorado.



But at the same time, advocates acknowledge that the “full system overhaul” is a heavy lift and that schools need to start from a place that makes the most sense for them based on their time, resources, and community support. For some districts, the clearest path has been to create new schools based on the model, as Philadelphia did this year when it opened three high schools that assign students to “workshops” rather than classes.


The schools retain some of the traditional school organization, but are working toward replacing standard grading with a detailed, competency-based matrix that lets students know at all times where they stand and helps them understand their own strengths and weaknesses.


Traditional letter grades don’t give students much information about what they know and can do, said Thomas Gaffey, the technology coordinator at Building 21, one of the three Philadelphia schools. The competency-based evaluation he helped design “makes the learning process transparent,” he said.

More often, schools have nestled a competency-based philosophy within their existing operations, maintaining their grade-level arrangements while adapting how they assess student learning.


“We’re a hybrid, which is what I think appeals to people who look at our model,” said Brian Stack, principal of Sanborn High School in New Hampshire. “It’s not vastly different from what they do with a traditional model, but it’s not so far out on the spectrum that it’s unattainable for them to get to where we are.”



At Sanborn, students are still enrolled in traditional classes and still receive credit for class at the end of the year. But all the courses have defined core competencies and if students don’t gain those competencies, they have to do extra work in order to earn credit for the class, rather than simply accepting the lower grade. The school is also in the process of doing away with numerical grades in favor of a scale that ranges from “limited progress” to “exceeding expectations.”


“We grade kids every day,” Stack said. “The difference is, what are you doing with that grade? Are you using that as feedback to tell students how they’re doing and to inform instruction or are you just using it as a determination to say did they know it or not?”



Stack said as much as he would like for his school to be totally unbound by seat time, its model is still dictated by the school calendar.



“If we can’t move kids when they’re ready, we can at the very least try to personalize instruction to the extent possible when they’re with us,” he said.


Other schools offer their own reasons for maintaining grade levels while rolling out a competency-based approach.


After a competency-learning pilot in math yielded major gains for California’s Summit Preparatory charter schools, the network adopted the approach in most academic subjects — and considered going further.


“We thought eliminating grades was the gold standard ideal,” said Adam Carter, chief academic officer. “We thought, ‘Those stupid grade levels are holding us back.’”


That changed when Summit officials thought through what they would lose by doing away with grade levels and realized that students benefit by belonging to a fixed cohort that advances together. “If students can plug into a project that is rich and full of layers, we don’t need to get rid of grade levels,” he said.


Schools operated by Rocketship, a national charter school network, regroup students four to six times a day based on their academic skills, in a robust example of how educators can use student data to foster competency-based learning.


“But we still have grade levels because of the social-emotional needs of students, especially early elementary,” said CEO Preston Smith. “Five-year-olds need to be with 5-year-olds most of the day so they can develop the life skills they need to be successful.”
Advocates of competency-based learning say the diversity among schools’ approaches should be expected — and appreciated — as more experiments take shape.


“Each school and each district is on its own journey and they’re going to have different entry points,” said Susan Patrick, president of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, which champions online and blended learning models that are often part of competency-based programs. “Most school leaders who are implementing this well … had been working on the building blocks for three to six years.”



Lillian Pace, senior director of national policy for KnowledgeWorks, said, “Naturally, you’re going to see a tremendous amount of diversity in implementation. … That’s healthy. We need to try different approaches. We need to figure out ultimately which methods are the most effective.”



For now, the experience of schools like Hodgkins suggests that competency-based education might help engage students in their learning.


When kindergarten teacher Jenn Dickman recently asked for volunteers to share their “data notebooks” with a visitor, her students rushed en masse to grab the binders.


Jayleen Vasquez was first in line. She flipped quickly through the pages—each a mini-progress report of her skills. At the top were headers such as, “I can read a Level D book with purpose and understanding” or “I can read 50 sight words in 100 seconds or less.”


Underneath were columns shaded in colorful crayon hues showing whether she’d met the goal, and if not, how much farther she had to go.


“I passed these. I got those two right and this one I just forgot one. I did not pass this one,” she said, gesturing to one page. Then she concluded with pride: “I passed all this.”
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Let's remember what 99% of citizens had for education in DARK AGES......Hmmmm, they were left uneducated not even able to sign their name on documents---but then those 99% were not part of that global banking 1% economy---had no access to health care, justice, owning property ---so why did they need to know how to sign a document----MOVING FORWARD RACE TO THE TOP/COMMONER CORE.



'For the poor, the dark ages really did not end in the way that it did for wealthy landowners, merchants and high ranking clergy during medieval times'.

But, Baltimore City public school budget is being addressed by those global banking 1% city council and Maryland Assembly 5% pols and players----DON'T WORRY!  

Looks like those 5% FAKE RELIGIOUS leaders make out OK.

Remember, ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE US CITIES/STATES deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES filling with a few billion of global labor pool soon left unemployed by ever-smaller job opportunities makes for a very different group of serfs and slaves.

As we say each time we discuss education public policy -----only those children identified as GENIUS and that is a 1% of population will be educated. 


We'll just keep PRETENDING US public education is getting better as we MOVE FORWARD COMMONER CORE.

The  Life of Peasants in Medieval Times

Written by Tim Nash
History - Middle Ages



When we enjoy entertainment or festivals that celebrate medieval life and times, it is the life of royalty, traveling bards, monks of knights that are most often the focus of our attention.  Few of us would want to celebrate the lives of peasants and surfs during the middle ages.  There is good reason for that.  There was little to celebrate about the harsh life poor people endured during this time in history.



For the poor, the dark ages really did not end in the way that it did for wealthy landowners, merchants and high ranking clergy during medieval times.  It is not an exaggeration that the life of peasants was a constant struggle to survive.  That struggle meant a daily life of hard work, harsh taxes and a lifestyle that was filthy and full of dangers of all kinds for themselves and for their families.




Because peasants were the very bottom rung of medieval society, they were under the harsh authority of just about every other rung of society.  They had to work the land of the Lord who owned it and then pay rent for working and living on that land as well.


  Peasants were required to swear an oath of allegiance to their Lord and to violate that Lord would bring harsh if not fatal punishments. 
To fulfill that oath, peasants had to do just about every kind if difficult manual labor imaginable including plowing the fields, planting and caring for crops, harvesting corn and other produce, storing it in barns and cutting and storing wood for the winter for themselves and the Lords who owned the land they lived on.



The level that those in power exploited the peasant class during medieval times was truly appalling.  In addition to coping with staggering poverty, peasants had to pay stiff taxes to their Lord and to the church in the form of the “tithe”.  Often peasants had no money for their tithes so they paid them in the form of the produce they grew on the land they rented from their Lords.  The Catholic Church realized such huge returns on the tithes from the peasant class that they had to build massive barns to hold all of the product that the peasants paid in.



Daily life for peasants was a constant struggle for the basics of health, water and comfort.  Their houses were called “crunk houses” and they were made of very basic materials such as straw, mud and manure.  There was no glass or wood for doors and windows so those openings were covered with curtains which meant that the house was cold in the winter or stiflingly hot in the summertime.



Furniture was a luxury for a peasant family so life took place on the floor.   There were no toilets so usually a single bucket was used that was emptied each morning into the nearest stream or river.  If the family owned animals, they were brought into the house at night as well.  It was too dangerous to leave the animals outside at night as they could be stolen or killed by wild beasts that roamed the countryside without restriction.  



This lifestyle was filthy and uncomfortable at the least.  Water was a tremendous premium so usually a small amount was carried to the home once a day and it was used for cooking or any cleaning that needed to be done.  Water was retrieved from the same river or stream that the refuse was emptied into the previous morning.  And since everyone in the village had the same habits, the likelihood that the family drinking water was contaminated was high.  Peasants had no resources for bathing or maintaining the minimum of what we currently consider to be hygiene, which meant that disease and death were rampant.  


Small wonder that few movies or medieval fairs focus on the lives of peasants during medieval times.  But it is good to take a few moments to realize that life during the highly romanticized medieval period was neither romantic nor luxurious for the majority of the populations of that era.

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Remember that HOLLYWOOD MOVIE making BOGART a global banking 1% freemason STAR------



'The Maltese Falcon (1941 film) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maltese_Falcon_(1941_film)

The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 film noir written and directed by John Huston'


1958 Eisenhower attaches US Federal agencies to KNIGHT OF MALTA---THE MITRE CORPORATION. Hollywood usually precedes global banking policy by a few decades.


MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE COMMONER CORE.

'Maltese Falcon to be offered once again to King of Spain

Malta Independent Sunday, 28 August 2005, 00:00 Last update: about 5 years ago


At a special ceremony that will be held next Sunday at Vittoriosa, a Maltese falcon will once again be offered to the King of Spain.


The elaborate and colourful ceremony will commemorate the 475th anniversary of the cession of the island of Malta to the Knights of St John by Emperor Charles V on 24 March 1530.


The Maltese falcon, on which the famous Humphrey Bogart film was based, is the bird which the Knights and the people of Malta sent every year to the Holy Roman Emperor and his descendants, the Kings of Spain, as a sign of their continuing fealty. The Maltese were subjects of Spain before the Knights came and continued being so even under the Knights'.


We discussed RAND CORPORATION in detail and its ties here in Baltimore ------when we follow these global corporations for which our US CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA--now TRUMP work--we can see what education policies they will be MOVING FORWARD next.



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There is nothing more tied to feeling our US public K-university is successful then the ability of our high school and college grads to find employment upon graduation whether trade or white collar professional employment.  Nothing controls that more than those controlling the US economy and the hiring process.

When we speak of EISENHOWER handing much of our US Federal agencies to a foreign sovereign MITRE CORPORATION then followed by BUSH doing the same we see why these few decades have seen an attack on our US public school system and why employment became so crony tied to a 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek throughout our Federal agencies---seeping down to our state and local government.  BUSTING OUR US ECONOMY was more than busting our US labor unions.


We want to discuss education public policy from the view of employment, middle-class, and consumerism.  We shared an article from raging global banking UK GUARDIAN trying to tell our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE that our all citizens are driven by greed and excess just as are those pre-Christian CATO/NERO/SENECA stoic OLD WORLD global 1%.  NOT REALLY!

When we describe the REAGAN/CLINTON era as the start of an attack on our US public education system for all 99% of US citizens we can see this decline tied to CONSUMERISM tied to moving our US corporations overseas to FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.

This article does address what has become a far-too consumer oriented US middle-class----but from where does this drive to consumerism come?  From global banking 1%-----nothing says REAGAN/CLINTON global banking 1% than our favorite freemason STAR -----ANDY WARHOL  and that MAD MAN of advertising----DON DRAPER.


From the Hollywood movie WALL STREET----




Gordon Gekko: The most valuable commodity I know of is information.
Gordon Gekko: Greed captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.



Mad Men


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



This article is about the television series. For the DC Comics villains, see Madmen.


Mad Men

GenrePeriod drama
Created byMatthew Weiner

Opening theme"A Beautiful Mine" (Instrumental)
by RJD2
Composer(s)David Carbonara
Country of originUnited States
Original language(s)English
No. of seasons7
No. of episodes92 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Matthew Weiner
  • Scott Hornbacher
  • Andre Jacquemetton
  • Maria Jacquemetton
  • Janet Leahy

Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. The series premiered on July 19, 2007, on the cable network AMC. After seven seasons and 92 episodes, Mad Men's final episode aired on May 17, 2015.[1]
Mad Men is set primarily in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (later Sterling Cooper & Partners), located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 Sixth Avenue.





What took American education system and stable, healthy, broad REAL free market economy was the saturation of US media with ADVERTISING FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS people really did not need.  Our humanities and arts public universities gradually became industrial arts tied to graphic arts and advertising as the major employer.



Hmmmm, who do we say LIE, CHEAT, AND STEAL?????  Indeed, it is those 5% to the 1% SHOW ME THE MONEY PLAYERS........not our 99% WE THE PEOPLE.


Turbo-consumerism is the driving force behind crime
Neal Lawson
Failed consumers will lie, cheat and steal to gain the trappings of success so that they can be regarded as normal

Wed 28 Jun 2006 19.12 EDT   THE GUARDIAN




Last week my son got mugged for his iPod. He wasn't hurt, just a bit embarrassed about some of the songs his assailants will find on it. This week I had my mobile stolen while sitting on a park bench. This is low-level stuff that is now commonplace. But there is a vital link between these ever-upgradable gadgets and the prime minister's call for a rebalancing of the relationship between the victims of crime and the perpetrators.In "my day" it was different. No one got mugged, perhaps because we didn't have anything worth taking. A home-made catapult was about as hi-tech as it got. Today a kid's trainers, iPod and mobile can easily cost £400 to replace - and can be gone as quickly as it takes a hooded youth to claim there's a knife in their pocket. I'm glad my son didn't take the risk of calling his robber's bluff.


But he had something they didn't. An iPod and the right phone are now essential trappings of youth - not just because they let you talk or listen to music at your convenience, but because of what they say about you. Once we were known by what we produced. Now we judge ourselves and others by what we and they consume. The advertisers know this; that's why they ask: "What does your mobile say about you?" Welcome to the consumer society and the world of the turbo-consumer. It's a world driven by competition for consumer goods and paid-for experiences, of hi-tech and high-end shopping signals that have become the means by which we keep score with each other.

As the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman points out, to be a successful consumer now defines what it is to be "normal". Therefore to be "abnormal" is to be a failed consumer. The lot of the failed consumer is miserable. This new poor may be better off in absolute terms than the poor of previous generations, but in the world of the turbo-consumer what you have means nothing - it's what others have and therefore what we must have next that counts. On these terms the new poor are falling far behind in an age when keeping up is everything.



The failed consumer suffers not just from exclusion from normal society but isolation. The poor of the past had each other in a community of poverty. Misery could be shared and countered through class solidarity and the hope of a different life. The new poor lick their wounds alone in their council flats, with nowhere to hide from the messages on billboards and TV that constantly remind them of their social failure. The new poor, without the right labels and brands, are not just excluded but invisible.


The final ignominy of today's poor is that they don't want to overthrow the rich to create a new order, they just want to be like them. So they are denied even the satisfaction of anyone to hate - just B-list celebrities to envy and copy.


So if you want the causes of crime then look no further than the impulse of the poor to belong and be normal. So strong is this urge that the failed consumer will lie, cheat and steal to "earn" the trappings of success. In the world of the "me generation", people become calculating rather than law-abiding in their overwhelming desire to be normal. This is crime driven by the rampant egoism of turbo-consumerism, where enough is never enough. And precisely because of its competitive nature, consumer-driven crime cannot be switched off through tougher laws.


New Labour has attempted to address some of the causes of crime with tax credits, a minimum wage and the New Deal. They are all helpful, but the government hardly ever talks about them.


Why should failed consumers play by the rules when no one at the top seems to - when social mobility is declining; when the government refuses to implement vocational training reforms for fear of a Daily Mail backlash over A-levels; when more thick middle-class children fill our universities; and when school league tables mean "problem kids" won't be tolerated?


New Labour refuses to change the rules of the market state and consumer society, and instead attempts another crackdown on the symptoms through Asbos and control orders. Just like Thatcherism, New Labour relies on a strong state to police a free market. The prime minister extols his respect agenda without realising that the architect of the term, the sociologist Richard Sennett, was talking about the respect the powerful give to the powerless. So Tony Blair tries to turn back the tide of crime against a rampant consumer culture of new gadgets that are designed, advertised, sold and bought to prove our normality over and over again. Nine years, 50 law bills and more than 700 new offences later, being even tougher on crime isn't going to work.


Of course, it is always wrong to mug or steal - but unless, as a society, we are prepared to understand why crime happens then, in the words of the criminologist Professor Ian Loader, "we are using a sticking plaster to fix a broken leg". You cannot build a tolerant society on the basis of zero tolerance.


In his speech last Friday, Blair admitted that "we can identify such families virtually as their children are born". But his solution is the science fiction of the film Minority Report, when the real crime is the existence of such families in a nation bulging with wealth.

When it is the dominance of the consumer economy that is driving so much crime, easy answers aren't close to hand. We need a different conception of the good life, in which time, relationships and care take precedence over consumerism. Next there is a political alliance to be created between the post-material, happiness-seeking middle classes, who want more time, and this new poor, who have all the time in the world but none of the money. This is what needs rebalancing: not the criminal justice system, but the wealth and riches of the nation.


The problem of not belonging, of being anxious and insecure, afflicts us all. It's just more sharply focused for those at the bottom of the heap. The social theorist Roberto Unger says: "Almost everyone feels abandoned. Almost everyone believes they are an outsider, looking in through the window at the party going on inside."


If we don't acknowledge their plight, the victims of an economy out of our control will always come back to haunt us. Against the backdrop of our comfort and complacency, the case for tax and tolerance has never been more needed.

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These global banking 1% freemason STARS working for those OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS who are driven by greed and excessive consumerism and gaining wealth and power anyway they can------created that SOCIETAL FAD -----of saturated advertising in our US society making it COOL TO CONSUME.  At the same time our US economy was being driven to collapse by those global banking pols sending our US corporations overseas where they merged, consolidated and were enfolded into the hands of OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1%.  US 99% WE THE PEOPLE were being made largely unemployed with employment tied to being a 5% freemason/Greek.  The ME GENERATION was driven by those 5% SHOW ME THE MONEY players who largely fueled this US consumerism.  

What also drove US consumerism during these few decades of US corporations moving overseas was the PRODUCT CHEAPNESS AND POOR QUALITY that forced US consumers to replace over and over and over products that used to last several decades and often were inherited over generations.  THE CHEAPNESS AND POOR QUALITY OF PRODUCTS drove our US consumerism by working and middle-class.


David Bowie - Andy Warhol 
smokehogg
Published on Sep 9, 2009
Classic pop art tune from Hunky Dory


Keep in mind CHEAP CHINESE PRODUCTS were always global banking 1% corporations simply operating in CHINESE   FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.  US citizens used to be able to buy a shirt or pants that would last a few decades-----suddenly having to buy new clothing every few years.  This is excessive consumerism by our US working and middle-class---but it was orchestrated by global banking 1%.


'Why are Chinese products of such low quality (other than iPhone being manufactured in China)?
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Michael Diliberto, eight years in China, over half in third-tier cities; living, working, setting up businesses, and managing ...


Answered Jan 15 2014 · Upvoted by David Levy, Over 30 years in China Operations & Mfg Turnarounds · Author has 149 answers and 397.6k answer views



As a sourcing professional in China, I can safely say that if I had a nickel for every western manager that pulled out an iPhone during a discussion about product design or quality control in China, I would have retired a few years back'. 

Our digital TVs with microchips that deliberately fail just after warranty of 5 years------the microchip costs the same as buying a new TV----where our last century family bought a TV that lasted several decades and went to our young adults.

Chinese manufacturers


The end of cheap goods?Some are predicting the end of the cheap “China price”; others are more sanguine
Jun 9th 2011 | HONG KONG AND TAIPEI



“IT IS the end of cheap goods,” says Bruce Rockowitz. He is the chief executive of Li & Fung, a company that sources more clothes and common household products from Asia than perhaps any other. In the low-tech areas in which Li & Fung specialises, the firm handles an estimated 4% of China's exports to America and a sizeable chunk of its exports to Europe, too. It has operations in several East Asian countries, where it diligently searches for cheap, reliable suppliers of everything from handbags to bar stools. So when Mr Rockowitz says the era of low-cost Asian production is drawing to a close, people listen.



He argues that Asian manufacturing has gone through a number of phases, each lasting about 30 years. When China was isolated under Mao Zedong, companies in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea grew expert at making things. When China reopened in the late 1970s, after Mao's death, these experienced Asian operators converged on southern China. With almost free access to land and labour, plus an efficient port and logistics hub in nearby Hong Kong, they started to make things ever more cheaply and sell them to the whole world.

Ahhhh, the good old GREAT LEAP FORWARD MAOISM using MARXISM to make all China communal land taking away Chinese peasant's ability to have family land owned for hundreds of years to farm and be housed-----great for global banking Chinese 1% to then simply TAKE that communal land and enslave those former peasant land owners.


For the next 30 years manufacturers in China helped to keep global inflation in check. But that era is now over, says Mr Rockowitz. Chinese wages are rising fast. A wave of new demand, especially from China itself, is feeding a surge in commodity prices. Manufacturers can find some relief by moving production to new areas, such as western China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Malaysia, India and Indonesia. But none of these new places will curb inflation the way southern China once did, he predicts. All rely on the same increasingly expensive pool of commodities. Many have rising wages or poor logistics. None can provide the scale and efficiency that was created when manufacturers converged on southern China.

Global 1% designer economy------MOVING FORWARD and no, Chinese 99% wages are NOT RISING.




Nothing can replace the Chinese miracle. “There is no next,” says Mr Rockowitz. Prices will now start to rise by 5% or more each year, with no end in sight. And that may be optimistic. So far this year, Mr Rockowitz says, Li & Fung's sourcing operation has seen price increases of 15% on average. Other sourcers of Asian toys, clothes and basic household products tell similarly ominous tales.




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We have discussed why global banking 1% loved STEVE JOBS and APPLE -----the genius of APPLE was to create the desire in our US 99% to be willing to buy new hardware for each technology upgrade that could have been bundled into one release.  MASSIVE waste of natural resources-----massive environmental devastation in toxic waste in production and landfill waste---but global banking loved the MARKETING AND ADVERTISEMENT bringing our working and middle-class out to buy yet another product.

Now, in fairness to our US 99% ------at the same time these marketeers were going crazy----our global corporations tooling themselves with these products were REQUIRING our US 99% to know how to use these products and to have them available at home----the 99% of WE THE PEOPLE were consuming largely because we needed products for our employment.

  INDEED, THERE ARE ALWAYS THOSE 99% NEEDING THESE PRODUCTS FOR STATUS.





So, global banking 1% fleeced our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE of our personal wealth we should have been saving and investing in our future family welfare with this manufactured SOCIETAL FAD of ultra-consumerism.



What Was the Real Magic Behind Steve Jobs' Marketing--and Can Apple Maintain It?


Robert Hof , Contributor I cover the collision of advertising and the Internet. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.



While Steve Jobs' genius went well beyond smart marketing, there's no doubt that was a major factor in Apple's success over the years. But what exactly did he do right that very few other technology companies have? Bill Cleary, who worked for Jobs at Apple from 1981 to 1985 and later worked with both Apple and NeXT (at the same time!) at CKS Partners, provided some insight at today's AlwaysOn Venture Summit.

Here's what Cleary, now senior partner at Cleary & Partners, had to say:

Apple and Jobs fundamentally changed advertising. Apple fully integrated all its marketing--PR, advertising, creative--something that to this day isn't done anywhere else in Silicon Valley. (Of course, the challenge for Apple now is that that integration was in the form of Steve Jobs himself. No telling if Apple can do the same without Jobs himself as the nexus.)


When Jobs returned to Apple, he instituted the Think Different ad campaign. Nobody else had the sheer chutzpah to say that people like Gandhi and Einstein would be using Apple Macintoshes if they were alive today.
Jobs also anthropomorphized computers, Cleary says, making Macs cooler and hipper. That drives the emotional attachment that people have for Apple. You had newscasters almost breaking out in tears after he died, and people putting flowers out in front of Apple stores. People felt part of this company.




The other things Apple does better than any other company in the world, he says, is they can make products cool. Barack Obama is using a Mac, the first time a president has used an Apple. Apple was constantly getting its computers inside movies--for free!--before movie companies figured out they could charge for product placement. Apple would give out computers to Michael Jackson and Robin Williams.
The biggest marketing success Apple had, Cleary says, is the Apple stores. All of a sudden, the entire store becomes a merchandising experience. Apple has done such a good job at retail that we have a Chinese clone--like Gucci.




Jobs also never settled, he says. The guy was a maniac. We had a lot of creatives who came back in tears. Inevitably they came back with work that blew away expectations.


Not least, consistency is key. You always know an Apple ad.
What's next for Apple? I worked on the Knowledge Navigator video for Apple about 20 years ago. It's the iPhone--it's all there. Apple has a roadmap that goes out 25, maybe 30 years. I think they'll expand into other consumer electronics devices in the next five years. I think you'll see an incredible Apple TV.

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We want to take today to discuss public policy around US consumerism because what Americans buy is what defines our employment and jobs. We discussed the problem in Maryland for our 99% of Maryland consumers being that the global banking 1% take global corporate kickbacks for allowing defective products be sold in Maryland and especially Baltimore.

All this hyper-consumerism was deliberately developed during REAGAN CLINTON------tied to global banking neo-liberal economic policy allowed to take what was a well-functioning left social progressive capitalism with REAL FREE MARKET opportunity for all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE expanding access to black, white, and brown 99% of citizens.

So, US working and middle class earning more wages buy what are ordinary products tied to house, transportation, clothing, food----but we are soaked in cheap, low quality products often defective needing to be replaced over and over again.

All of these economic policies were driven by global banking 1%-----their greed, their drive to accumulate wealth and power---those pre-Christian CATO/NERO/ SENECA KINGS AND QUEENS.

When 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE allow consumerism be corrupted by MOVING FORWARD US CITIES deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES---we are super-sizing these product corruptions....limiting the kinds of employment we can have......and this all falls heavily on our PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.



Hyper-consumerism drives product manufacturing and the kinds of jobs we have which drives our US public K-university education.



Why Defective Products Are Allowed on the Market - and How You Can Fight Back

Jan 6, 2017

This past September, Samsung – the Japanese electronics giant – was embroiled in controversy. The cause: some Samsung Galaxy Note 7 mobile phone units reportedly caught fire due to defective batteries.

The issue quickly consumed the news. TV shows aired videos of smoldering phones – and in one notorious example, a smoldering Jeep. People shared pictures of damage caused by burning Note 7 units on social media. Angry and horrified consumers flocked to electronics stores to return their phones, fearful that they were carrying ticking timebombs.

Samsung took action. The company issued a voluntary recall for all Note 7 units (followed by an official recall from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission) and carried out an aggressive campaign to collect every model from consumers before they could cause any more damage. As of December, the company estimates it has received 93 percent of all Galaxy Note 7 devices in the U.S.

They couldn’t act fast enough to avoid the backlash, though. The FCC, along with major airlines, banned the device from all commercial flights and prohibited bringing the Note 7 onto the aircraft in any capacity. Tech review website CNET collected all of the units it had sent out to reviewers. Major mobile retailers stopped selling the device.

Three months later, the damage to company is still being determined; their net profit fell by 16.8 percent in the third quarter. Fortunately, no deaths resulted from the defective product – but with defective consumer products, that isn’t always the case.

Each instance of a catastrophic product failure like with Samsung’s flagship product raises troubling questions, particularly one: did the company know or suspect that the product was defective before it hit the market?

No evidence (as of this writing) has emerged to suggest Samsung knew there was a dangerous defect in their phones but released them anyway. But companies do this all the time, all in the pursuit of profits. And even if they don’t know for sure, frequently companies should have known of a risk or defect that should’ve kept the product from reaching the public.

Unfortunately, the first time many people hear of a problem with a product is when it makes the news for tragic reasons.

When products are released to the market, the first line of defense is the manufacturer itself. But as I mentioned, companies don’t always do the right thing and fix flaws before they cause problems. That leaves the U.S. regulatory process, in the form of industry and government organizations, to serve as the next and final line of defense.

But even that step has issues.
Problems with the U.S. Product Regulation Process

There are essentially three big problems with the regulatory process in the U.S.:

Regulators usually can’t identify problems before they hit the market. According to a recent interview in Trial magazine with Elliot Kaye, the Chairman of the CPSC, “We don’t get to inject safety considerations into products before they hit the market, so we’re left to pick up the pieces after incidents start occurring.”
There is no approval process for consumer products like there is with pharmaceutical products and the FDA.
Just because a regulatory agency approves a product doesn’t mean it’s safe.

The first problem is easy to understand – no one can predict the future, and the sheer volume and rapidity with which new products are brought onto the market each year makes it so even product creators themselves can’t predict what will go wrong.

The second problem is a bit more difficult for many Americans to grasp once they are made aware of the fact. It defies common sense that there isn’t a regulatory agency that approves consumer products before they hit the market. Sure, there are various agencies that have oversight over certain types of products (like the FCC with mobile phones), but there’s no central agency that grants approval for products before they can be sold to consumers.

The third problem is perhaps the most dangerous: approval doesn’t necessarily mean the product is safe. Plenty of products that are approved each year are incredibly dangerous. Consumers can get lulled into a false sense of security. That’s because they think approval means “It’s okay” – which in fact it only means the product passed the test that the agency used.

Here’s the thing: agencies like the FDA don’t conduct independent tests for every product. That’d be impossible under the best of circumstances – countless products are introduced to the market each year – but agencies are also understaffed.

In lieu of independent tests, agencies typically use information given to them by the companies that have their own tests. Problems – and injuries – arise when companies withhold information from agencies that would threaten the approval process. When this happens, consumers can get hurt.
How Consumers Can Protect Themselves from Defective Products

As a consumer, you can’t directly help what a manufacturer does or doesn’t do when they’re developing a product. But there are steps you can take to protect yourself. These include:

Never be an early adopter. Early adopters are the first ones to face defective products. It’s better to wait and see if the first people to buy and use a product experience any problems. That leads to…


Check consumer reviews before every purchase. Try and find reviews from consumers themselves. Industry “experts” and professional reviewers often miss flaws and defects due to the fact that there are far fewer of them than there are consumers.


Beware of fake reviews. Along those lines, some online reviews are fake. Learn how to spot fake reviewsfrom the real thing and remember: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. For its part, Amazon is suing sellers who paid for false reviews for their products.


Keep an eye out for product recalls. Product recalls are there to protect you. In a post I wrote last year, I shared tips you can follow to keep track of recalls and take action should you discover you’re using a recalled – and therefore unsafe – product.


Know where your products are being built. Many consumer products are manufactured overseas in countries with few – if any – regulations and regards for safety. That’s not to say an American-made product is automatically safe, but always try to find out where the product was manufactured before buying.


Buy new when possible. Used products typically don’t come with warranties. You also don’t know how they were handled and where they came from originally.

What should you do if you’re injured by a defective product? First, seek medical care. Carefully document the circumstances of your injury. If you suspect the product is to blame, record everything. Then, contact a defective products attorney for more information on how to proceed.

You’ll want documentation of when you bought the product and from whom you bought it, as well as any other documentation that came with the product and the circumstances of how it was used. That, combined with medical information, is typically the foundation for determining if you have a case.

There are a lot of problems with our system for controlling and eliminating defective products. Manufacturers often have their best interests in mind, not yours. You have to take action on your own behalf and that of your family to keep yourselves safe.

Companies can’t be trusted to keep defective products off the market, and regulators aren’t always capable, either. The next time you buy something, be critical of the product and who made it – then fight back with your wallet by refusing to buy.


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The flood of consumerism tied to US these few decades was fueled by our US working and middle-class trying to maintain ordinary domestic lives corrupted by cheap quality products and defective products----but here we see our US citizens still in poverty -----and we do indeed talk about our poor citizens paying $100 for sneakers but we are shouting against those 5 % global banking players profiteering from our US poor citizens in the hyper-marketing/advertising in our US media. We have always understood why someone in poverty would buy a Cadillac or $100 AIR JORDANS----but it is not innate greed, the drive for accumulating maximum wealth and power behind these kinds of consumption.
THE US ECONOMIC MOVEMENT TO LIVE SIMPLY SO OTHERS CAN SIMPLY LIVE STILL CAPTURES OUR US 99% AS THE QUALITY OF LIFE GOAL ERASING HYPER-CONSUMERISM.
Our US working and middle-class are NOT just like the global banking OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS wanting to be CATO/NERO/SENECA.

Why You Should Shut Up When Poor People Buy New Nikes


Lisa Wade, PhD on January 2, 2015


Flashback Friday.


When it comes to forming an opinion on poverty, some Americans just can’t seem to understand why poor people can’t just stop being poor. One of the things that gets harped on is the idea that poor people spend money on frivolous things; somehow some people believe that, if the poor just gave up their cell phone and Nikes, they would pop up into the middle class.



What these people don’t realize is the extent to which being poor is living a life of self-denial. To be poor is to be forced to deny oneself constantly.

The poor must deny themselves most trappings of:




an adult life (their own apartment, framed pictures on the walls, matching dishes);
a comfortable life (a newish mattress, a comfy couch, good shoes that aren’t worn out);
a convenient life (your own car, eating out);
a self-directed life (a job you care for, leisure time, hobbies, money for babysitters);
a life full of small pleasures (lattes, dessert, fresh cut flowers, hot baths, wine);
a healthy life (fresh fruits and vegetables, health care, time for exercise);
and so, so many more things that don’t fit into those categories (technological gadgets, organic food, travel, expensive clothes and accessories).



They have to actively deny themselves these things every day. And, since most poor people remain poor their whole lives, they must be prepared to deny themselves (and members of their families) these things, perhaps, for the rest of their lives.


So when someone sees someone (they think is) poor walking down the street with a brand new pair of Nikes, perhaps what they are seeing is someone who decided (whether out of a moment of weakness or not) to NOT deny themselves at least one thing; perhaps they are seeing someone who is trying to hold on to some feeling of normalcy; perhaps what they are seeing is a perfectly normal person who just wants what they want for once.


I was thinking about this today when I saw a postcard at Post Secret (which, to be fair, may or may not have been submitted by someone who struggles financially). The postcard, featuring a PowerBall receipt, reads “It’s the only time I feel hopeful”:


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For many poor people, hope and the absence of fear and worry are also luxuries they live without.
Originally posted in 2009.


Lisa Wade, PhD is a professor at Occidental College

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This was the battle as REAGAN/CLINTON era began the attack on our US public K-university. Our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens all protested the defunding of our US public schools and what we KNEW was the gradual encroachment of global corporations taking over our physical school buildings and curricula------we began by fighting all that hyper-neo-liberal corporate advertising inside schools and things as simple as bringing VENDING MACHINES under the guise of schools needing the money for classrooms.
This was deliberate----designed to capture our US economy into what was our working and middle-class trying to maintain a normal home life with some recreation ----lost employment, falling wages all with a goal of creating CONSUMER DEBT.

EDUCATION AND MARKETING ARE LIKE OIL AND WATER------that is how our US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE have felt throughout this global banking attack on our US economy by hyper-consumerism



Branded: Corporations and our Schools


by Jennifer Rockne

February 2002


“If you own this child at an early age, you can own this child for years to come.” –Mike Searles, former president of Kids-R-Us children’s clothing store, on marketing to kids



Competition in the corporate marketing arena is fierce. No news there. But as companies vie for brand recognition, brand loyalties, and market share, schools have emerged as lucrative marketing venues. Ongoing funding challenges faced by public schools have enabled marketers to jump in with “donations”-free or low-cost supplemental materials, equipment, and cash. What does this mean for our kids and schools?


The following excerpt, from a letter to principals of School District 11 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from John Bushey, the district’s director of “school leadership,” demonstrates one effect of corporate influence in our schools. One year into an $8 million exclusive vending contract with Coca-Cola Corp., Bushey wrote:


Dear Principal: Here we are in year two of the great Coke contract.we must sell 70,000 cases of the product.. Here is how we can do it: Allow students to purchase and consume vended products throughout the day. If sodas are not allowed in classes, consider allowing the juices, teas and waters.


John Sheehan, vice president of the Douglas County, Colorado, school board, was the sole dissenter to a 10-year, $27.7 million deal struck between a three-school district consortium and Coca-Cola. Sheehan explains vividly the challenge of providing quality public education on a tight budget:


Education and marketing are like oil and water. Public education has an agenda that is already crowded enough. When we become marketers and distributors, we confuse our mission. I worry about a time when our educational goals might be influenced or even set by private companies targeting our students with their own narrow messages. . .Yes, schools need money, but turning to commercial sales for income is a cop-out. It sends the message to our voters and legislators that we can let them off the hook-that advertising and sales of consumer products can fill the gap when it comes to supporting education.


Are corporations, with priorities of profit and shareholder return, proper partners for public education?


The Commercialism in Education Research Unit at Arizona State University, in a study released September 2001, indicated commercializing activity in and around schools has increased nearly 500 percent
since 1990.



Children encounter the corporatization of their schools in their cafeterias, their classrooms, their buses, and on their stadium scoreboards. Companies engage kids by distributing free product samples and coupons through their schools. Even learning itself is laced with commercialism: textbooks feature brand-name products to demonstrate math and science problems, and advertisements saturate classroom magazines and television programs.



Methods Corporations Use to “Go To School”


Electronic marketing such as Channel One,a daily, ad-bearing news program for grades 6-12 broadcast “free” to 40% of all schools contracting it as a mandatory part of the curriculum. The incentive to schools? Installation and unlimited use of the provided satellite dish, VCRs, and classroom TVs. Channel One Communications owns, maintains, and insures the equipment–and repossesses it if the school drops its contract. Two minutes of each daily 12-minute program contain commercials for which corporations pay over $800 million yearly to deliver their propaganda to 8 million captive students.


“The advertiser gets a group of kids who cannot go to the bathroom, who cannot change the station. . .who cannot have their headsets on.” –Channel One executive Joel Babbit on value for advertisers.


Exclusive agreements to sell or use products, primarily with companies like Pepsi and Coca-Cola. (Has your child asked for money for Friday’s Taco Bell lunch?) So-called “shoe schools” arise from athletic shoe agreements with corporations like Nike and Reebok-and add unintended stress on schools that compete for students in open-enrollment districts.


Incentive programs like General Mills’ Box Tops for Education, Pizza Hut’s Book It!, and Campbell’s Soups’ Labels for Education encourage school fund raisers to influence family purchases of specific brands or to frequent certain businesses. In-school fundraisers using items like magazines or candy turn kids into salespeople. Company sponsors gain an unpaid sales force and can inflate prices since the enterprise appears charitable. Increasingly, schools are engaging in the absurd practice of encouraging purchases from certain websites like schoolpop.com, robbing their community businesses and their own sales tax base-a key part of school funding in many districts! Another ethically questionable appeal urges parents to acquire and use credit cards that provide a kickback to schools, condoning consumerism and debt.



Sponsored Educational Materials


SEMs are best described as public relations materials disguised to look like classroom activities and lesson plans a la the Chips Ahoy counting game in which kids calculate the number of chocolate chips in their cookies. Even more disturbing are nutrition lessons taught by McDonald’s and environmental issues discussed by the Shell and Chevron Corporations, all contained in widely distributed resources.


Sponsorship of programs and activities such as Canon’s National “Envirothon” high school competition and “Coke in Education Day.” Now, some high school regional and state athletic championship games–and even regions themselves–have corporate sponsors. Wells Fargo bank paid $12,000 for naming rights to an athletic conference in central Arizona.


Contests sponsored by companies like Brainstorm USA through schools to obtain demographic information on students and parents for marketing purposes. Companies are promised a potential market of over 14,000 teachers and two million students.


Privatization that shifts school or program management from public accountability to private, for-profit corporations whose accountability is to stockholders, such as Edison Schools, Inc. You have to wonder…if teachers gain stock options after a year’s tenure, where do their loyalties lie?


Can we Rely on Teachers?

While some argue that teachers can serve as gatekeepers against biased messages often found in sponsored materials, most teachers haven’t been taught how, may not see the need, or lack knowledge in the topic addressed. Similarly, claiming teachers can defuse advertising messages in sponsored materials and programs and salvage something worthwhile from them is like using textbooks containing gender or ethnic discrimination and claiming it’s a good way to teach about diversity.



“The only genuinely educational use I can see for corporate propaganda in the classroom is to inoculate students against it, so that they will not swallow it uncritically without considering other sides of the question.” David Lunney, teacher, Greenville, NC



Why Target Kids at School?


America’s kids represent a large and growing market. Elementary-aged children spend around $15 billion per year and influence another $160 billion of their parents’ spending. Teenagers have even greater economic clout, spending $57 billion personally and another $36 billion of their families’ money annually.


Are Corporation Solving Financial Troubles?


Taxpayers fund classroom time that is being wasted on ads. A 1998 study by educator Alex Molnar and economist Max Sawicky indicated that taxpayers in the U.S. pay $1.8 billion per year for the class time–twelve minutes spent by students on the required nine out of ten school days–lost to Channel One. Channel One’s commercials alone cost taxpayers $300 million per year, and taxpayer cost for just the advertising time exceeds the equipment’s total value.


Citizens can act to keep schools free of commercialism schools in several ways:


1. Support adoption and enforcement of guidelines ensuring public debate on commercialized money offers and keep commercially-sponsored programs out of classrooms (contact us for specific local and state model policies).


2. Teach children to evaluate commercial content and bias in materials they receive in school, Tv shows, commercials and other sources. Discuss your purchasing and finance decisions with kids where appropriate





3. Raise the commercialism issue with school fundraising committees-or better yet, get involved-and directly impact how schools augment funding.


4. Proactively address the larger problem of school funding and disparities between communities, which leads well-intentioned administrators to rely on corporate sponsorship and advertising revenues.


5. Push to eliminate corporate tax breaks for contributions carrying commercial messages to schools, insisting corporations pay their fair share of school funding.
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MOVING FORWARD back to DARK AGES bringing OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS extreme wealth extreme poverty----far-right, authoritarian, militaristic, dictatorship is the goal of REAGAN/CLINTON neo-liberalism and Bush neo-conservativism.

The saturation of our US economy with hyper-consumerism----hyper-consumer debt is an invention of global banking 1% and their COMPLEX FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT FRAUDS of our US consumers-----corrupting what was the best in world history PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY for 99% of WE THE PEOPLE CITIZENSHIP and participation in REAL FREE MARKET ECONOMY.

DON'T BLAME OUR US WORKING AND MIDDLE-CLASS FOR GREED, AVARICE, HYPER-CONSUMERISM----WE KNOW IT IS DRIVEN BY GLOBAL BANKING AND THOSE SHOW ME THE MONEY 5% PLAYERS----



The epitome of global banking 1% marketing and advertisement-----the CATO STOIC SUPERHERO.




The Stoic Superhero


Somewhere along the way in the last thousand years, stoic philosophy has gotten something of a bad rap. To be called “stoic,” is something of a mixed bag, implying that you are calm and composed but also unfeeling, cold, and generally a buzzkill. While the philosophy itself has been largely maligned since its hey-day in the ancient and antique world, it has always attracted me for some reason. As I started to read up on the subject with books like A Guide to the Good Life, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca’s Letters to a Stoic, I noticed that many of the basic concepts were familiar to me. This is not because I was some stoic-savant, but because I had learned these lessons as a child – from superheroes and comic books.



I have always been a fan of superheroes and in the last few years have taken a liking to comic books as well. Maybe it’s the mythic level of storytelling found in this medium, or maybe it’s just because it’s a fun diversion, but I’ve always loved them. What I began to realize while reading up on stoicism is that many of the core principles and beliefs that the ancient stoics espoused were actually perfectly represented by the heroes I idolized. In fact, as I kept reading I realized that all of my favorite superheroes were in fact characters that embraced this philosophy.


Contrary to popular belief, stoicism does not require some absence of emotion, but rather merely recommends that you strive to control them and mitigate all negative emotions. Stoicism arose in ancient Greece from the teachings of a philosopher named Zeno of Citium, who taught it as a milder alternative to the more extreme philosophy of Asceticism. Whereas the ascetics advised an extreme distaste for their bodies, the stoics prized the intellectual life without actively opposing the physical. Zeno taught underneath a porch called the “stoa poikile,” giving stoicism its name.


What personally attracted me to stoicism was its approach to fear, and its tactics for conquering anxiety. I have always been something of a worrier, largely because I think too much and find ways to stress myself out over everything. In some ways this can be positive, because it forces me to work hard out of sheer panic. However, there is no doubt that it has negatively affected my life, and I felt that I needed a method to cope with it. Stoicism’s novel approach to these concerns is simple, and recommends that one think through the situation logically.


One such example of this would be the one that plagued me most as a young man, “What if I fail this class?” It is tempting to begin to spiral out of control and become convinced that your world will end and your life will crumble around you if you fail. However simply by thinking through it logically, one begins to see the holes in this argument.

SOUNDING LIKE THE STAR TREK 'SPOCK' ROMANTIC FICTIONAL VERSION OF CATO/NERO/SENECA STOICISM.



If I fail the class then I will simply take it again. It might not be pleasant, but I will not be injured, and I won’t face any kind of serious repercussion. Perhaps someone will be disappointed in me, but ultimately they will probably forgive me if I apply myself and try again. Without too much effort, this technique helps to show us how irrational many of our biggest concerns truly are. There is a certain amount of fatalism to this method and the good stoic should embrace the fact that although bad things may happen, he/she is strong enough to overcome it.


This approach to our concerns demonstrates the philosophy’s near-obsession with reason. The stoics believed that reason could conquer all challenges, and that it was the duty of a stoic to exercise it. Only by seeing things clearly and eliminating our negative emotions can we make the right decision. This is closely paralleled in the approach of the Dark Knight himself: Batman.


Batman is perhaps the most stoic of all superheroes, and a large part of this is the high premium that he places on reason. He is bound by his principles, never taking a life, but is also willing to exercise a kind of utilitarianism if necessary. For example, he famously concocted a contingency plan to defeat all of the members of the Justice League by praying on their greatest weaknesses. This was a logical precaution, which he created to ensure that any and all of them could be stopped should they somehow go out of control.

WE ARE PRETTY SURE CATO/NERO/SENECA STOICISM WAS CONTINUOUS WARS FOR MAXIMIZED WEALTH AND POWER-----NO REASONING---NO TAKING NO LIFE.




Not only is this a pure example of the stoic virtue of reason, but it is also a form of their approach to anxiety. It should be remembered that despite all of their occasional arguments and disagreements, the Justice League is Batman’s colleagues and friends. He cares about them, and it could not be easy to determine exactly how to brutally murder them if he had to do so. Batman has endured countless losses throughout his life, and perhaps this is his way of preparing himself for the inevitable deaths of the people that he cares about. He accepted that this was a possibility, and took steps to prevent it despite his personal feelings.


Another key stoic principle was the importance of the will and will power. Although the stoics were not actively neglectful of their physical bodies, they did believe in being willing to be indifferent to it. All pain and torment was seen to be secondary to having a keen reason and a free spirit. Because of this they chose to refrain from luxury and vice that would weaken the spirit. As such they were expected to maintain a kind of constant vigilance and discipline in order to cultivate a great spirit. While the body could fade away, a noble spirit and an honorable death was something that a stoic could aspire to in his life.

OH, REALLY???????  YOU MEAN THE CATO/NERO/SENECA OF EXCESSIVE WEALTH AND ALL THAT COMES WITH EXCESS----THEY 'REFRAINED'

Although many heroes certainly exercise phenomenal willpower, none do so as directly as the Green Lantern. His ring itself is fueled from an outside power source but the Green Lantern’s strength derives from the strength of his/her will. It is provides the wielder with only as much power as they can generate, and will fail if this is somehow impaired. It they are strong enough, they can wield immense power, but they are limited only by their force of will their creativity. Kyle Rayner, my favorite Green Lantern, managed to become a formidable foe largely by harnessing his skills as an artist. This idea of willpower being a force in and of itself has always appealed to me, and the Green Lantern has always fascinated me for this reason.


It would be wrong to discuss the stoic superhero however, without talking about the most famous superhero of them all: Superman. I initially did not think of the Man of Steel as a stoic, until I considered that he actually is an epitome of the stoic approach to discipline. The stoics felt that it was important to always be in control of one’s self, and to never let negative emotions govern your actions. They were not willing to let themselves be overcome with sadness or rage, and believed in doing their duty. No one exemplifies this virtue more than Superman.



It is tempting to be lured in by the inherent power fantasy of Superman, and be caught up in the immense physical abilities of the character. However, upon further consideration his life is more than a little terrifying. Superman lives in a “world made of cardboard,” where even the smallest error could result in a broken bone or a stopped heart. If he ever lets himself fly out of control, people will die.


He must exercise constant discipline, and he cannot ever let himself be overcome by the petty emotions that we take for granted. While fans sometimes chide him for his Boy Scout behavior and his goody-two shoes mentality, they fail to see that is the only solution available to him. He does not have the luxury to fly out of control or express his unfettered emotions like Batman. If Clark Kent allows himself to lose control for even a short time then people could die. Perhaps this is why he forces himself to be kind and even-tempered, because the alternative could have earth-shattering consequences.


The one aspect of stoicism that fascinated me the most was their approach to hardship and to personal tolerance. As a child I often entertained grim fantasies about what I would do if my family suddenly lost everything. I felt very strongly that I had to mentally prepare myself for the worst, so that I could be ready if it happened. This is, oddly enough, something that the stoics strongly advocated.



The stoics believed that one must prepare himself for the worst, and be ready to abandon everything and everyone if need be. This was not because they did not value these things, but because they recognized that all things are ephemeral and that losing them is inevitable. By reminding one’s self that our time is limited and that we are lucky to have the things and people in our lives, we are able to enjoy them more. Forcing one’s self to sleep on the floor, dress in rags, and eat gruel was a way of enforcing this. The stoics believed in having the personal fortitude to weather any storm and this is happens to be the subject of my personal favorite graphic novel.

ONLY IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT NONE OF THOSE GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS PRACTICED WHAT THEY PREACHED ESPECIALLY THE PHILOSOPHER SENECA.



Frank Miller is an American comic book writer and artist who has created some of my favorite pieces graphic novels. In addition to writing the legendary Dark Knight Returns, he also was the writer who put my favorite character Daredevil on the map. Prior to Miller’s influence Daredevil was an unremarkable hero with a strange and gimmicky power. To use my friend Eric’s description, “So does he have like heightened other senses or is he just… blind and better than you?” The answer to both of course, is yes. By far Miller’s most famous work with the superhero is his arc, Daredevil: Born Again, a work of genius that just so happens to show the character’s stoic nature.


Daredevil had always occupied a strange space as both a lawyer and a vigilante (Get it? Justice is blind.) and Miller chose to destroy this. He created a story where everything was slowly and methodically taken away from the character of Matt Murdock. The machinations of the evil villain Kingpin and the betrayal of Matt’s ex-girlfriend Karen Page left him disbarred and on the streets. All of the things that he had used to identify himself, his job, his home, and even his costume, were taken away from him. Matt Murdock becomes a homeless man in New York City with twelve dollars to his name and little will to go on.


In true comic book fashion of course Matt Murdock manages to piece his life back together, but not without a great deal of personal change and sacrifice. Beginning the story completely dissatisfied and constantly seeking to blame others, he is forced to evolve. Matt finds a new job as a short order cook and takes pride and pleasure in his work. He learns to accept where he made mistakes and even forgive those who have so deeply and profoundly wronged him. In the end he even defeats his nemesis, but without ever directly attacking him. Matt builds himself back up from the ground up and demonstrates that he is still a hero.


Miller writes Daredevil as a true stoic in the face of misfortune, and that is why I love the character so much. Daredevil is a man who has, time and again, faced extreme hardship and personal loss. Despite this however, he always finds a way to rise above it and come out on the other side. After the laundry list of tragedies that have devastated him it would be reasonable for anyone, even a comic book superhero, to lash out. Yet Matt Murdock soldiers on, taking the beatings and rolling with the punches.



Daredevil also exemplifies a topic that I have discussed in a previous blog on my affection for Batman, the Choice of Hercules. While I had initially chosen to discuss it in the context of Batman, I suppose that it really applies to all of these heroes. I love this story, so I hope that you will indulge me by letting me tell it again. I promise I will keep it brief this time.


While faced with something of a quarter life crisis, a young Hercules goes to the woods to meditate on what he will do with his life. Two beautiful goddesses appear to him and attempt to convince him to follow them. The goddess Pleasure tempts him with promises of material comfort and satisfaction, food, women, wealth, and all of the things he craves for no real effort. The other goddess promises him nothing. Her name is Virtue, and she tells him that if he devotes himself to her he will get nothing that he does not earn through the sweat of his brow and the toil of his labors. But she promises him that this is the path of honor, that will cultivate his character and make him a man to be respected. Naturally Hercules chooses this path, as do all of the heroes I idolized as a child.


In a brilliant interview for the Men Without Fear documentary, Frank Miller had this to say about the character he helped recreate:



“Matt should have been a villain. He had a terrible childhood, his romantic life is the worst… Sure the girls all look great but they end up dead or killing him or something… But somehow this guy redeems himself and moves ahead. He just doesn’t give up. He’s just like his dad.”


The same could be said about any of the characters in this post. It is not easy to do the right thing, and to choose to try to be more than what you are. These characters have the choice to rule like gods over mankind, (or at least to have a pretty decent law career) but they choose to follow virtue instead. The stoics, and the superheroes, are committed to this. Despite their own temptations and desires, they force themselves to continue to strive for excellence.

I admired this quality as a child and I admire it now, because I don’t think that I have it. I know myself and I know my weaknesses, so I continue to look to ancient texts and modern comic books for inspiration to be more than what I am. Is it silly? Yes. Does that matter? No. If I can learn to emulate the great stoics like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Cato the Younger, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Hal Jordan, and Matt Murdock, perhaps I can borrow some tiny portion of their strength.  Perhaps they can make me a better stoic.




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We will segue into public policy for education by reminding our US citizens and making our 99% of new immigrants aware that national news in US has always been controlled by global banking 1%.  When people doubt we KNOW what we discuss----when people doubt what we say is REAL ---the goal of our writing on public policy every day is to be that REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE ACADEMIC AND VOICE that used to exist in US and in Europe for centuries ---holding power accountable and making sure our 99% of WE THE PEOPLE have the REAL information they need to be CITIZENS and to have opportunity and access in REAL free market economy.

We KNOW what we do because we were taught in PUBLIC K-UNIVERSITY how to educate to find real information.  We were always told never trust any ONE source---to educate BROADLY.  TV and radio was built by global banking 1% to serve their needs in hiding goals---in creating mis-information.  It was our local media and academics that held these national TV and radio anchors to being as HONEST as one can---because they knew they would be OUTED by local academics and media.  If our 99% WE THE PEOPLE fall for what 5% pols and players shout---DO LISTEN TO THEM----we will never be citizens--we will never be free, have liberty, justice, the opportunity for pursuit of happiness.

So, we ended last week's discussion on US war weapon public policy showing how US PRESIDENT EISENHOWER installed what was the CONTINUOUS WAR MACHINE and what was a FOREIGN SOVEREIGN CORPORATION designed to CONSOLIDATE all Federal agencies -------SOUND FAMILIAR?  That is exactly what BUSH ERA did with HOMELAND SECURITY which without coincidence is headquartered on MALTA----tied to OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS KNIGHTS OF MALTA........


'Eisenhower was the first presidential candidate to utilize television. Both the 1952 and 1956 conventions received network coverage'.

Back in 1958 when  EISENHOWER created MITRE----that consolidation of all our US military and national security agencies into a captured, secret society----we can bet just as today's news anchors---those dastardly 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek players----highlighted the parts of   ?   like creation of air traffic control---but failed to detail what MITRE was and what its goals would be.


'1958 in the United States - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki


/1958_in_the_United_States August 23 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the U.S. signs the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, transferring all authority over aviation in the U.S. to the newly created Federal Aviation Agency (FAA, later renamed Federal Aviation Administration)'.
'Mitre also worked on a number of projects with ARPA, including precursors to the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)'.

Below we see the global banking 5% player media anchors paid to make sure the US 99% of citizens did not KNOW the goals of these governing structures. 

BUT-------REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE ACADEMICS AND WRITERS DID KNOW AND WERE SHOUTING LOUDLY---THROUGH 1960S-70S-----AND THROUGH 1980s-90s.

Global banking 1% puts a blitz of media calling REAL NEWS ---FAKE NEWS-----conspiracy theory back then as they are doing today.


Public interest writers and academics on public policy have always known----read and watch what national media is saying to FIND WHAT THEY ARE HIDING.




TV News Shows
NEWS SHOWS
See It Now
Meet the Press
NBC News
Today
CBS News

TV NEWS SHOWS


The primary source of news in the Fifties was newspapers and magazines. To view an event, people relied on MOVIETONE NEWS. These news segments played before every movie and were the best way to actually see what went on. Your “newsreel camera” was often the “most complete reporter.” MOVIETONE NEWS had camermen all over the world capturing footage of breaking stories.

But television would soon offer some strong competition.



See It Now9/11/1951 – 4/7/1958 CBS


30 minutes
Black and White/Color


Edward R Murrow, anchor
Fred W. Friendly and Edward R. Murrow, producers



See It Now pioneered many features which now seem synonymous with news reporting.They were the first to use their own footage and not newreel film. They introduced the use of field producers. Interviews were not rehearsed.
On a split screen, viewers of the first installment could see both the Golden Gate and Brooklyn Bridges – spanning the continent in a single moment. This was the first live commercial coast to coast broadcast.


For seven years Murrow, with cigarette smoke swirling about him, let Americans see the world from their TV screens.


Murrow was the first commentator to publicly condemn Senator Joseph McCarthy. Although many of his stands were courageous, he attracted controversy and this often worried sponsors.


Passings

Edward R. Murrow died in 1965 of brain cancer and Fred Friendly in 1998.

Edward R. Murrow

The Edward R. Murrow Collection


Meet the Press11/6/1947 –
30 minutes until 9/13/1992, then 60 minutes NBC
Black and White/Color
Created by Martha Rountree


Moderators:
Lawrence E. Spivak (1947-1975), Bill Monroe (1975-1984), Marvin Kalb (1984-1987), Chris Wallace (1987-1988), Garrick Utley (1988-1991), Tim Russert (1991- 2008)



“American Mercury Magazine” editor Lawrence E. Spivak started the show in 1945 on radio as a nice promotion for his magazine.Who knew it would become the longest running network show?



Martha Rountree, the original creator sold her interest to Spivak in 1953. He left the show in 1975. His last guest was President Gerald R. Ford, the first incumbent President to appear.


Little has changed over the years. A guest is interviewed by the moderator and panelists.


Passings


Lawrence Spivak died in 1994 of congestive heart failure, Garrick Utley died in 2014 of prostate cancer and Tim Russert died of a heart attack in 2008

NBC News2/16/1948 –
15 minutes until 9/9/1963, then 30 minutes
Black and White until 1966, then Color


Anchors:
John Cameron Swayze (1948-1956), Chet Huntley (1956-1970), David Brinkley (1956-1979), John Chancellor (1971-1982), Tom Brokaw (1982-2004), Roger Mudd (1982-1983)



It started as the Camel Newsreel Theatre. Camel, as in the cigarettes.Lasting only ten minutes, the show featured John Cameron Swayze and the Movietone Newsreels. Later it expanded to fifteen minutes and Swayze narrated the news. In 1954 the now Camel News Caravan broadcast the first network news show in color, though this did not become a regular thing until 1965.


Eisenhower was the first presidental candidate to utilize television. Both the 1952 and 1956 conventions received network coverage.


NBC had paired a couple of fellows as anchors for these conventions who seemed to click. The partnership of Chet Huntley and David Brinkley was the stuff from which legends are formed. 1956 saw the beginning of the Huntley-Brinkley Report, a 15 minute nightly news program, the first of its kind. (It expanded to 30 minutes in 1963.)The Huntley-Brinkley Report was the top rated news program for most of its 14 year life.
After Huntley departed in 1970, the show was renamed the NBC Nightly News.


Passings

Chet Huntley died in 1974 of lung cancer, John Cameron Swayze in 1995, John Chancellor in 1996 of stomach cancer.
Goodnight David, Goodnite Chet (Wav)(23K)

John Cameron Swayze

David Brinkley

Today1/14/1952 – NBC
2 hours, then 3 hours
Black and White/Color
Sylvester L . Weaver, Creator (Signourney Weaver’s father)



Hosts:
Dave Garroway (1952-1961), John Chancellor (1961-1962), Hugh Downs (1962-1971), Barbara Walters (1963-1976), Frank McGee (1971-1974), Jim Hartz (1974-1976), Tom Brokaw (1976-1981), Jane Pauley (1976-1989), Bryant Gumbel (1982-1997), Katie Couric (1991-), Matt Lauer (1997-)


The accomplishments are many. First early morning show. Longest running daytime series. Most hours on the air. But nobody would have guessed that in the beginning.
The Today Show was one of many creative endeavors of Sylvester L. “Pat” Weaver (Your Show of Shows, Tonight, Wide, Wide World). He never figured people would watch the entire show, so he constructed it to allow for folks getting ready for work and school.


The original team was host Dave Garroway, sports by Jack Lescoulie and Jim Fleming read the news until 1953 when he was replaced by Frank Blair. From inception, the show has the glass window to view the streets of New York.

Early results weren’t promising and they decided to make the show more entertaining. They added a chimpanze by the name of J. Fred Muggs, who became a popular star in his own right.
Dave Garroway’s famous signoff was “Peace.”


The early years also featured a “Today Girl” whose main job was to look good. The first of these, Estelle Parsons, left to pursue an acting career. The “Today Girl” doesn’t mature until they hire Barbara Walters in 1963. She expanded not only the position but broke barriers to women in journalism.


Although faces have come and gone, the format remains about the same. And the Today Show endures.

Passings

Dave Garroway committed suicide in 1982, Frank McGee died of cancer in 1974, John Chancellor in 1996 of cancer, and Sylvester L. Weaver in 2002.

Dave Garroway

Dave Garroway
and J Fred Muggs

CBS News5/3/1948 –
15 minutes until 9/2/1963, then 30 minutes
Black and White until1966, then Color


Anchors:


Douglas Edwards (1948-1962), Walter Cronkite (1962-1981), Dan Rather (1981-), Connie Chung (1993-1995)


The glory days for CBS were the Cronkite years. Voted the “Most Trusted Man America” the WWII veteran correspondant set the standard as both managing editor and anchor of the CBS News.


When people think back to hearing the news of Kennedy’s assassination, they see and hear Cronkite. (CBS was first to report the shooting but not the death.) Cronkite’s negative coverage live from View Nam was considered a turning point in American public opinion of the war.


By the time Dan Rather takes over, corporate policy had changed and the succeeding years were troubling.
As Cronkite always said in his signature closing, “that’s the way it is…”


Passings

Douglas Edwards died in 1990
Walter Cronkite died in 2009 at 92

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In 1958 when then US President EISENHOWER created MITRE tied to US aviation our national media and those HOLLYWOOD AND GLOBAL BANKING MARKETING 5% players had the job of saturating our media with our US 99% FLYING THE FRIENDLY SKIES.  Our US 99% did not research or educate on what MITRE's entire structure was or its goals-----our FAKE NEWS was telling us it was all about helping the 99% of WE THE PEOPLE.

Our US public won a victory in FLYING THE FRIENDLY SKIES public policy.  We simply did not educate to know the goals of global banking 1% were never PUBLIC INTEREST and that our FRIENDLY SKIES would not remain friendly.

Flash forward to today our US airlines have all been made global corporations no longer AMERICAN----and we have militarized drones, satellites, et all filling those FRIENDLY SKIES.  We no longer even own our American air space and airwaves as CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA MOVED FORWARD killing our US national sovereignty.



Flying the Friendly Skies for 53 Years - YouTubewww.youtube.com/watch?v=0yTu8_Bwtpw Dec 27, 2010 ·

Norma Heape has been flying the friendly skies as a flight attendant with Continental Airlines for 53 years. Peter Greenberg reports.



U.S. Aviation Infrastructure


The U.S. air travel system is the most heavily used in the world, but it needs a much higher rate of investment to modernize and improve efficiency.



Backgrounder by Steven J. Markovich
May 28, 2015
Introduction


U.S. aviation infrastructure—including airports, air traffic controls, and aircraft—is a vital link in the U.S. transportation system. Its relative performance and outlook, though, is mixed. More people travel by air in the United States than on any other nation’s system but the U.S. system ranks behind other major industrialized states in performance. Its airports perform poorly on international rankings, and no U.S. airline rates among the top performing global carriers.


Although U.S. travelers benefited from falling fares in the initial decades following deregulation in the late 1970s, prices have begun to rise again in recent years and may continue to rise as bankruptcies and mergers limit competition among airlines. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) NextGen program and planned airport improvements may cut costs. At the same time, the FAA faces challenges to safety regulations from the emergence of drone technology, a potentially promising area for commercial aviation.



Economics of Aviation


Civil aviation is a critical enabler of U.S. growth. It accounted for 5.4 percent of U.S. GDP in 2012 (compared to 3.4 percent for the United Kingdom and 3.5 percent for the entire world) and supported 11.8 million jobs, more than 20 percent of the global total. Americans take more trips annually (593 million in 2013) than any other nation, ranking seventh globally in air trips per capita. While non-U.S. aviation industries are expected to outpace U.S. aviation growth in the coming years, it is still expected to have the most trips in 2020. The FAA forecasts that U.S. passenger flights will grow at an average annual rate of 2.7 percent through 2030 (following the expected GDP growth rate), but air freight tonnage is expected to grow at 5.1 percent per year, more than doubling by 2030.


Aircraft manufacturers, such as Boeing, are typically far more profitable than airlines and airports, holding the largest positive trade balance ($54.3 billion) among U.S. industries. However, manufacturers held a paltry 3 percent of the global air industry’s total capital investment—which had reached $1.2 trillion globally by 2011—compared to airports (36 percent) and airlines (54 percent for both direct and through lessors). Airports and airlines earn lower returns on invested capital, and while airports are typically stable investments that benefit from low borrowing costs, airlines generally have volatile earnings and higher borrowing costs.



In the thirty-year period after deregulation began in 1978, U.S. airlines lost nearly $60 billion. However, U.S. airlines now rank among the world’s most profitable thanks to a boost from market consolidation and tight capacity. Airlines have exerted greater discipline in holding capacity by focusing on increasing fares and filling all seats on flights.



U.S. airlines now rank among the world's most profitable thanks to a boost from market consolidation and tight capacity.Volatile fuel costs are airlines’ largest operating expense. Passenger traffic is susceptible to demand shocks because demand for air travel exaggerates economic changes; swinging up strongly during economic booms with sharp declines during recessions. In the United States, a 1 percent change in per capita income is estimated to increase or decrease demand for air travel by 1.6 to 2 percent. The growth of low-cost carriers has hampered the ability of higher-cost legacy carriers to raise fares without surrendering market share. Airlines also have an incentive to expand their networks to increase the attractiveness of their frequent flyer programs and to bid for lucrative corporate contracts.


But travelers have clearly benefited from lower prices. Real prices in the United States have fallen by about half over the last thirty years, accompanied by considerable turmoil in the market; there have been nearly two hundred bankruptcies since 1990, including all of the legacy carriers. Airline mergers have concentrated the industry; once the American Airlines and U.S. Airways merger is complete, the top four airlines will control over 80 percent of the U.S. market. Recent consolidation may lead to higher prices on less popular routes, while airlines continue to benefit from lower fuel costs and higher economic growth, which typically stimulates consumer demand.



Funding Airport Infrastructure


U.S. aviation infrastructure moves more people than any other nation’s system—more than twice as many as China, the world’s second largest. Yet the United States lags on performance indicators compared to other leading industrial economies. No U.S. airport made the top twenty-five of the latest World Airport Awards, an annual customer rating of best airports. No U.S.-based airline made the top ten for on-time performance among global airlines compiled by FlightStats, a flight data services company. Four U.S. airlines ranked in the world’s top six for oldest aircraft fleet.



Lagging performance by the U.S. aviation system may partially be explained by lower investment in the last decade. Every two years the FAA submits a consolidated five-year plan to Congress on airport improvement, comprising project ideas for over three thousand U.S. airports. The 2015 edition showed a twenty-one percent decrease in development projects. This is due to a variety of factors, including lower growth expectations and less traffic as passengers occupy fuller and fewer flights.



While total U.S. public aviation infrastructure spending on operations and maintenance has been slowly growing in the last ten years, capital spending has declined, from $21 billion in 2004 to $13 billion in 2014. Reasons for this include a decline in the federal share of spending, project delays due to budgetary constraints, and the Great Recession (2007-2009). From 2013 to 2017, annual development costs at U.S. airports are expected to plateau at $13.6 billion. Delayed infrastructure investment can be costly in terms of time lost due to airport delays; the FAA estimates a cost to the U.S. economy of $24 billion annually.

U.S. airports also tend to fare poorly on intermodal transport compared to foreign counterparts. The Global Gateway Alliance, a nonprofit organization that advocates for greater infrastructure investment in the New York metropolitan area’s three major airports, ranked the world’s thirty busiest airports on mass-transit connections; only one U.S. airport, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, ranked in the top nine, while six U.S airports held spots in the bottom nine. U.S. airports are controlled and funded by local authorities, with about 55 percent of revenue derived from aviation. The remaining income comes from sources such as parking and retail fees. Public control allows airports to benefit from lower borrowing costs, due to lower default risk and tax deductible interest for bondholders. Local airport authorities provide most capital investment, primarily financed through bonds. There is some federal support; of the estimated $13.6 billion in capital investment, the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program will contribute $3 billion in annual federal funds through grants.




Despite playing a smaller role than local authorities in airport investment, the federal government has a substantial role in aviation. The FAA spends over $7 billion annually on air traffic control operations, and over $1.2 billion in developing and enforcing new safety standards and aircraft certifications. The federal government also controls air travel security through the Transportation Security Administration and negotiates Open Skies Agreements, agreements aimed at creating a free-market environment among international carriers, with other nations.



The federal government also collects taxes and regulates certain fees, including a passenger facility charge (PFC) that airports collect for every boarded passenger. Airports use this money for FAA-approved projects such as terminal improvements, enhanced security measures, or to service debt. Collections from this charge totaled $2.8 billion in 2013, but the PFC has been capped at $4.50 per passenger since 2000 with no adjustment for inflation, and much of that funding is already committed to retiring debt from prior projects. In its fiscal year 2014 and 2015 budgets, President Barack Obama’s administration has proposed raising the cap to $8.00 to account for inflation, but Congress has not yet approved the increase.


Canada and several European nations have successfully privatized airports, but the United States has had minimal success. In 2010, 48 percent of European passenger traffic was handled by the 22 percent of airports that were fully or partially privately owned. Though the FAA established a pilot program for airport privatization in 1996, only the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, in Puerto Rico, has been privatized, and there is only one active applicant in the program: Hendry County Airglades Airport in Florida. Two major factors have limited U.S. success [PDF]. First, privatization in the United States would typically require agreement at multiple levels of government, while most privatized airports abroad were owned by their national governments, simplifying the approval process. Second, publicly controlled U.S. airports benefit from lower borrowing costs because state and local governments can issue tax-favored debt, but few foreign airports enjoy similar benefits, and therefore lose less in the transfer to private hands.



FAA’s NextGen


Improving airport infrastructure is not limited to airports and rail connections. The FAA plans to revamp the air control system with a program known as NextGen, a "wide ranging transformation of the entire national air transportation system" that the FAA says will help the air control system to "meet future demands and avoid gridlock in the sky and in the airports."



NextGen aims to improve safety, cut costs, increase existing airports’ capacity, and make available more airspace by collecting and sharing more accurate data among air traffic controllers and pilots. The program will replace the FAA’s current land-based radar system with a more sophisticated GPS satellite-based system. The new system, slated for completion by 2020, will allow air traffic controllers to track the locations of planes in flight more precisely, allowing for takeoffs and landings to occur closer together, and improves landing safety in poor visibility.



NextGen aims to improve safety, cut costs, increase existing airports' capacity, and make available more airspace.The FAA’s implementation of NextGen has generated criticism. A May 2015 report from the National Academy of Sciences—done at Congress’ behest—called for more emphasis on cybersecurity and the growth of drones. The report also found that NextGen had shifted from its original vision of a transformative change to one emphasizing more incremental improvements and replacing and modernizing aging equipment and systems.



The FAA’s current NextGen business case [PDF] estimates the program, which they say will cost the FAA $13.6 billion and airlines $15 billion, will yield $133 billion in benefits between 2013 and 2030. The FAA expects airlines to pay at least $7 billion to revamp their current fleets and has mandated complete fleet compliance by 2020 [PDF]. Globally, an estimated $120 billion will be spent over the next ten years on similar efforts. Europe’s SESAR is taking a similar approach, and since March 2011, both SESAR and NextGen programs have worked toward harmonization.


Rise of the Drones


Another area of technological innovation with potentially profound implications for civilian aircraft use is unmanned flight. There has been rapidly rising private interest in drones, but this appears to be at odds with the FAA’s deliberative approach to safety in the skies. Drones have many potential uses beyond recreation: aerial photography, crop monitoring, oil exploration, and delivery services, to name a few. There are risks, including many documented near misses with manned aircraft, and privacy concerns highlighted by a drone crash on the White House lawn in January 2015.


Legally flying commercial drones requires a special certificate or exemption, but in February 2015 the FAA proposed new commercial drone regulations, including a certification process. The proposed rules would open up many commercial uses, but set limits on elevation (five hundred feet), speed (one hundred miles per hour), and weight (fifty-five pounds), and also required drones to be flowing within the operator’s sight.



While the United States has been a center of innovation for drones, the proposed rules could put the nation at a competitive disadvantage. In testimony to the U.S. Senate, an executive for Amazon, which has expressed interest in drone delivery services, said that "nowhere outside of the United States have we been required to wait more than one or two months to begin testing." The FAA later granted an exemption to the company in April 2015 for testing. But, until the FAA rules are finalized, it is unclear whether they will stymie attempts to innovate and commercialize drones, from Amazon’s intended delivery service to agriculture.

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Below we see the mirror of what 1958 Eisenhower created tied to the MITRE CORPORATION done again in 2000 by Bush in HOMELAND SECURITY also tied to KNIGHTS OF MALTA-----


'Flying the Friendly Skies for 53 Years
- YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yTu8_Bwtpw

Dec 27, 2010 · Norma Heape has been flying the friendly skies as a flight attendant with Continental Airlines for 53 years. Peter Greenberg reports'.


Here is one of our favorite global banking 1% freemason STARS MARVIN GAYE back in early 1970s creating societal FADS to make our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE then what was MOVING FORWARD from Eisenhower 1958 consolidation of all Federal agencies tied to homeland security and aviation was FRIENDLY.



Marvin Gaye
Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)

Arguably the most powerful song Marvin Gaye has ever…
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99% US WE THE PEOPLE simply need to educate our children and grandchildren----make sure our young adults---US black, white, and brown citizens and our new 99% of immigrant citizens understand how to use media----academics to garner REAL INFORMATION.

What Bush-era HOMELAND SECURITY did was move from national agencies tied to Federal government agencies and move them into being CITY STATE government structures tied with MOVING FORWARD US CITIES deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES----breaking the US into non-sovereign city state regions governed by that global 1% tribunal.

So, Eisenhower was used by OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS to create a CONTINUOUS WAR MACHINE using all the wealth and assets of our US sovereign nation while Bush was used to restructure the US away from a sovereign nation to independent Foreign Economic Zone CITY STATES with CATO/SENECA extreme wealth extreme poverty, authoritarian, militaristic, far-right STOICISM----LIBERTARIAN MARXISM.



We go to Brookings Institute to understand what the global 1% does not want the 99% WE THE PEOPLE to know----and easily figure out the goals of MOVING FORWARD.


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Promise and Problems: President Bush’s Homeland Security Department


I.M. Destler and Ivo H. Daalder Saturday, June 1, 2002 BROOKINGS INSTITUTE

Reversing eight months of administration policy, President George W. Bush went on nationwide television June 6th to urge Congress to create a new Department of Homeland Security. It would, in his words, be “charged with four primary tasks”: controlling our borders; responding to terror-driven emergencies; developing technologies to detect weapons of mass destruction and protect citizens against their use; and “review[ing] intelligence and law enforcement information?to produce a single daily picture of threats against our homeland.” It would pull together 169,000 government officials now dispersed among 22 offices in eight of the 13 existing Cabinet departments. If approved by Congress in anything like the form proposed, it would be, as the President stated, “the most extensive reorganization of the federal government since the 1940s.” Only the creation of the Department of Energy under President Jimmy Carter offers a more recent parallel.




The President’s proposal is, therefore, impressively ambitious. It includes just about every agency and function that could reasonably be brought into a new department, and more than proposed in the pre-September 11 Hart-Rudman Report or the Lieberman-Thornberry bill recently reported out favorably by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. The proposal to include in the new Department a separate intelligence analysis unit is particularly noteworthy.






Why did the President shift course?

Though there have been hints of change since mid-April, the basic administration line prior to the President’s announcement was that the problem of coordinating government-wide homeland security activities had been appropriately addressed through the creation last October of a Homeland Security Council (HSC) and Office of Homeland Security (OHS) headed by former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. This original design had much to commend it—and something very much like it will remain vitally important even after the new Department has been set up. However, skeptics had argued from the start that Ridge had lacked the authority to pull policy together, and the chorus of critics grew when the governor visibly failed to win interagency approval of his plan to consolidate the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Customs Service, the Coast Guard, and other agencies charged with overseeing people and goods crossing U.S. borders. This appearance of weakness undercut the President’s policy and gave the initiative to skeptics in the press and the opposition party. When reports surfaced in May of the failure to by FBI leaders to take seriously lower-level reports that might have headed off the 9/11 catastrophe, compounded by failure of the FBI and the CIA to communicate with one another, the President decided to act. The result is a new organizational ballgame.

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We shared an article on military weaponry policy that made clear the SCIENCE behind STAR WARS defense policy just as the SCIENCE behind space colonization is almost all PUFFERY.  Will a super-duper big dead head MOVE FORWARD science as these same global banking 1% players sell in today's media and FAKE academic writing?  WE DOUBT IT.  What we will see in 21st century is simply FEAR-MONGERING over climate, food scarcity, water contamination and shortages-----lots of civil unrest 5% global banking freemasons creating reasons for more and more and more authoritarian, militaristic structures in US CITIES AND STATES deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES or what global banking 1% calls SANCTUARY CITIES.

This is bad for all our 99% US citizens black, white, and brown citizens---but especially bad for our 99% new immigrants who are not those global 1%.


The 21st century militarized weaponry policy is SMART CITIES TECHNOLOGY is space colonization policy is PLANETARY SPACE MINING public policy.  There is no CLIMATE CHANGE or MAGNETIC POLE REVERSION that will create a MASS HUMAN EXTINCTION -----within centuries if not millennium.  We can STOP MOVING FORWARD and install 99% WE THE PEOPLE sustainability and still love basic science and astro-physics discoveries.

GLOBAL BANKING 1% IS USING MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1% SIMPLY FOR WEALTH AND POWER.


Those OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% JEWISH AND CATHOLIC MERCHANTS OF VENICE WORKING FOR KINGS AND QUEENS ARE AT IT AGAIN.

They are tied to PRE-CHRISTIAN CATO/SENECA and not religious.


CNN.com -

Bush signs Homeland Security bill - Nov. 26, 2002

www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/homeland.security/... Nov 25, 2002 ·

Citing the dangers of a new era, President Bush signed into law legislation Monday creating a Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security -- a move that sets into motion the largest reorganization of the federal government in more than half a century.


Bush signs Homeland Security bill

Ridge nominated to head departmentTuesday, November 26, 2002 Posted: 1:10 AM EST (0610 GMT)

President Bush: "America will be better able to respond to any future attacks."



LEGISLATION HIGHLIGHTS


• Creates a Cabinet-level department out of all or parts of 22 agencies -- including Customs, INS and the Transportation Security Administration -- with about 170,000 workers and a $37 billion budget.
• Grants the president flexibility to hire and fire workers, but gives unions a chance to challenge new rules.
• Approves a plan to allow pilots to carry guns in cockpits.




WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Citing "the dangers of a new era," President Bush signed into law legislation Monday creating a Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security -- a move that sets into motion the largest reorganization of the federal government in more than half a century.


Bush named Tom Ridge, who has been director of the White House Office of Homeland Security for nearly a year, as his nominee to lead the vast, new department.
"He's the right man for this new and great responsibility," Bush said of Ridge, during the signing ceremony in the East Room of the White House.


The president also tapped Navy Secretary Gordon England to be Ridge's deputy, and he nominated Asa Hutchinson, currently the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, to serve as undersecretary for border and transportation security.


Ridge will have the challenge of demonstrating he can use his new authority to put together an 170,000-employee agency to better protect the United States from terrorist attacks and make the American public feel secure.


The department is a direct result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which exposed security lapses and intelligence failures, and led to calls for sweeping changes to the nation's defense, intelligence and law enforcement sectors. (Fact sheet)


Bush initially resisted the idea of a new department, which had been championed primarily by Democrats in the wake of the attacks. But Bush embraced the concept in June and used the issue effectively on the campaign trail this past fall, criticizing Democrats who differed with him over the issue of labor rights within the new department.


At the White House Monday, Bush said the department will reduce America's vulnerabilities and help the country respond better to any future terrorist attacks.
"The continuing threat of terrorism, the threat of mass murder on our own soil, will be met with a unified, effective response," Bush declared, pointing out that the agencies responsible for border, coastline and transportation security will be under one roof.


The legislation calls for the $40 billion department to be up and running within a year, but White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the complete transition "will take a couple years."


Critics of the new Homeland Security Department say it creates overlap, taking employees from 22 existing agencies such as the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Coast Guard and the Border Patrol -- departments that critics believe should simply be strengthened.


Over the weekend, Sen. Jim Jeffords, I-Vermont, said creating the new department will only divert resources from the fight against terrorism and "give the American people a false, false sense of security."
Others said the department will do the opposite.

Asa Hutchinson leans over Tom Ridge to talk to a colleague."I don't buy the argument that in the short run, the creation of this department is going to somehow inhibit us in the war against terrorism or in the protection of homeland security," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Connecticut, said after Bush signed the bill. "In fact, I think it will help us immediately."


Lieberman was an early advocate of the department, and he -- along with other lawmakers and labor leaders -- attended the White House ceremony.


The bill passed over Democratic objections that it was loaded with provisions having nothing to do with homeland security, such as liability protection for vaccine manufacturers and exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act.


Rep. Dan Burton, R-Indiana, threatened to hold up the bill Friday because of the vaccine provision. He decided in the end to let the bill pass, promising to join the efforts of three moderate Republicans in the Senate to strip it from law next year.


Still, the creation of the department faces other criticism. Several mayors say the bill is missing a key component: providing money to cities to fight terrorism.


Creation of the new department is the biggest reorganization in the federal government since the Department of Defense was created in 1947.

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'Turner the 'jackass'
Turner did not study business in college, as one might expect. Instead, he focused on classics at Brown University'.


If REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVES had to listen to one more generation of FAKE ALT RIGHT ALT LEFT PROPAGANDA like Ted Turner and JANE FONDA being LEFT RADICALS -----we would not want our next generation listening to LYING, CHEATING, AND STEALING far-right wing global banking 1% FAKE NEWS.

Here we see Ted Turner tied to one of the most far-right Bush neo-conservative global hedge fund IVY LEAGUES BROWN UNIVERSITY----always called by national media as LEFT RADICAL.   Jane Fonda is that global banking 1% freemason STAR our US 99% were told was a COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZER.  Well, if communism was LEFT and not far-right extreme wealth extreme poverty CATO/SENECA stoic LIBERTARIAN MARXISM-----then JANE AND TED may have been REAL LEFT POPULISTS.

TED TURNER was of course always that OLD WORLD GLOBAL BANKING KINGS AND QUEENS freemason----and CNN was always that ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1% propaganda media.  Today, after FAKE RADICAL LEFT TED was pushed out----CNN does not even pretend to abide by US MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS laws and free press journalism.


Now we have CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR being that global banking 1% news anchor and that is OK because she is a global 1% woman MOVING FORWARD dis-information in US media and academic writing.

OH, NO----we are not being feminists if we are not supporting those OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% global banking HILLARY NASTY LADIES! OH, REALLY????




Ted Turner: 'You've got to be able to take disappointment in life'
By Claire Calzonetti  CNN-----


Updated 3:04 PM ET, Fri July 31, 2015





How the man behind CNN was inspired by classics


11:45
Story highlights

  • CNN founder Ted Turner tells Christiane Amanpour he has to "live with" regret at being pushed out of his company
  • "You've got to be able to take some disappointment in life ... to roll with the punches," the billionaire media mogul insists
  • Turner wants to help save the planet and get rid of nuclear weapons, which he says are like having "dynamite in your basement"
(CNN)Will CNN founder Ted Turner ever get over getting pushed out of his own company?

"No," Turner tells Christiane Amanpour. "I don't have to get over it. I live with it."


As Turner approaches his 77th birthday, CNN -- the first ever 24-hour news network -- remains very close to his heart, and he's still dealing with the regret of losing it.





Ted Turner recalls meeting with Fidel Castro 08:37
"You've got to be able to take some disappointment in life, too ... you just have to roll with the punches [when] adversity hits you."


Amanpour visited the billionaire media mogul and philanthropist at his sprawling Montana ranch, where he spoke frankly about CNN, his successes, failures, family and goals for the future.


Turner admitted CNN came very close to not making it: In the network's first year, things were going so poorly, financially speaking, that Turner recalls the bankers asking for their money back.


"It was really fun. I mean -- and it was scary."
But Turner, undeterred as always, had faith in his mission: "I knew what I was doing. At least I felt like I knew what I was doing. And it turned out that I did."



Dealing with failure


Turner, a bold thinker, and never one to take no for an answer, had a simple response when asked how he deals with failure: "Try to avoid it."


And avoid it, he has. Turner has found success in nearly everything he's done and amassed billions of dollars in the process -- $1 billion of which he gave away to the United Nations.


At 76, Turner's step has surely slowed -- he admits he's tired and suffers from atrial fibrillation -- but the billionaire is not ready to rest on his laurels.
Turner follows the advice of his father, who tragically shot himself when Ted was just 24: be sure to set your goals so high that you can't possibly accomplish them in one lifetime.


And his current aim, to protect the environment, is about as big as goals can get. His car is adorned with two bumper stickers, proclaiming: "Save the Planet" and "Save Everything."


Captain Planet


Turner's magnificent Montana ranch is part of the two million acres he owns across several states. Bison roam everywhere (Turner owns the world's largest private herd) and bald eagles routinely fly by.
This is where he calls home in the summer, and he seems quite at ease here, whether mingling with the animals, horseback riding, fishing or simply sitting on the deck and taking in the glorious lake view.


Turner' says his biggest fear is nuclear weapons. He wants to get rid of them all, saying having the weapons is like having "dynamite in your basement."





'There's not one blemish on my honor' 03:37
"It's time to put war behind us," he says, "We've made enough progress to where we can say goodbye to war."


For a man of great wealth, he does not live very lavishly at the ranch, and says he avoids using electricity unless it's absolutely necessary.


For Turner, clean energy is the next big business endeavor. He's already in the solar power business and his advice to young entrepreneurs is to get involved: "We have a chance to make a fortune in [clean] energy."



Turner the 'jackass'
Turner did not study business in college, as one might expect. Instead, he focused on classics at Brown University.

When his father learned of this, he was irate, and sent his son a scathing letter, which read in part:


"My Dear Son, I am appalled, even horrified that you have adopted classics as a major. As a matter of fact, I almost puked on the way home today ... I think you are rapidly becoming a jackass, and the sooner you get out of that filthy atmosphere, the better it will suit me."
Turner was so amused by the missive that he sent it to his college paper, which republished it in full.


He says he's never regretted studying classics, and that he lives with the lessons he learned about honor.


"There's not one blemish on my honor in my entire 76-year career ... I never paid anybody off ... It's very easy to slip into a lot of corruption. Very easy. But I resisted it all the way along."

OH, REALLY????  AND WHY DO 99% OF US WE THE PEOPLE NOT KNOW THE GOALS OF MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE FOR ONLY THE GLOBAL 1%?


Turner recites a passage from Shakespeare's Richard II to illustrate his belief:


"My honor is my life, we live in one. Take honor from me and my life is done. Then pray my liege, my honor let me try, for that I live, for that I die."

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Here we see the 21st century FAKE NEWS ----this is global banking 1% media outlet SYDNEY MORNING HERALD in Australia doing just what our US FAKE media are doing------feeding continuous END TIMES media surrounding CLIMATE CHANGE and natural disaster while being silent on how all those UNITED NATIONS and PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE global media is FAKE NEWS.  We cannot listen to global banking 5% players and organizations telling us the 21st century is END TIMES.....with our EARTH's natural stresses or those FAKE weaponry development.

As we shout over and again-----the 99% WE THE PEOPLE ---US AND NEW IMMIGRANT CITIZENS are more powerful than those now having power---don't fall for all this PUFFERY.  

Just rebuild our REAL LEFT SOCIAL PROGRESSIVE MEDIA AND ACADEMICS.



When those 5% to the 1% are the ones writing articles of END TIMES and tied to institutions working for global banking 1%----please read or listen to what they say then look for what they are HIDING!




Climate change could make humans extinct, warns health expert


By Deborah Snow, Peter Hannam
31 March 2014 — 3:00am

The Earth is warming so rapidly that unless humans can arrest the trend, we risk becoming ''extinct'' as a species, a leading Australian health academic has warned.Helen Berry, associate dean in the faculty of health at the University of Canberra, said while the Earth has been warmer and colder at different points in the planet's history, the rate of change has never been as fast as it is today.

''What is remarkable, and alarming, is the speed of the change since the 1970s, when we started burning a lot of fossil fuels in a massive way,'' she said. ''We can't possibly evolve to match this rate [of warming] and, unless we get control of it, it will mean our extinction eventually.''
Professor Berry is one of three leading academics who have contributed to the health chapter of a Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report due on Monday. She and co-authors Tony McMichael, of the Australian National University, and Colin Butler, of the University of Canberra, have outlined the health risks of rapid global warming in a companion piece for The Conversation, also published on Monday. The three warn that the adverse effects on population health and social stability have been ''missing from the discussion'' on climate change.
''Human-driven climate change poses a great threat, unprecedented in type and scale, to wellbeing, health and perhaps even to human survival,'' they write.

They predict that the greatest challenges will come from undernutrition and impaired child development from reduced food yields; hospitalisations and deaths due to intense heatwaves, fires and other weather-related disasters; and the spread of infectious diseases.
They warn the ''largest impacts'' will be on poorer and vulnerable populations, winding back recent hard-won gains of social development programs.


Projecting to an average global warming of 4 degrees by 2100, they say ''people won't be able to cope, let alone work productively, in the hottest parts of the year''.


They say that action on climate change would produce ''extremely large health benefits'', which would greatly outweigh the costs of curbing emission growth.
A leaked draft of the IPCC report notes that a warming climate would lead to fewer cold weather-related deaths but the benefits would be ''greatly'' outweighed by the impacts of more frequent heat extremes. Under a high emissions scenario, some land regions will experience temperatures four to seven degrees higher than pre-industrial times, the report said.


While some adaptive measures are possible, limits to humans' ability to regulate heat will affect health and potentially cut global productivity in the warmest months by 40 per cent by 2100.

Body temperatures rising above 38 degrees impair physical and cognitive functions, while risks of organ damage, loss of consciousness and death increase sharply above 40.6 degrees, the draft report said.

Farm crops and livestock will also struggle with thermal and water stress. Staple crops such as corn, rice, wheat and soybeans are assumed to face a temperature limit of 40-45 degrees, with temperature thresholds for key sowing stages near or below 35 degrees, the report said.


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Promoting tensions between men and women is a thousands of years old global banking 1% POLITICAL TOOL. MOVING FORWARD will take down our US 99% of WE THE WOMEN----but it takes down 99% US WE THE MEN as well-----no winners for our 99% in MOVING FORWARD.




'Nasty Women - Amelia White, Mary Battiata, Siobhán O'Brien


Public · Hosted by Sowebo Music Series'


What 99% of US and global 99% of new immigrants to our US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zones must do is this-----enjoy the entertainment of our talented global banking freemason STARS----while knowing they are paid to sell SOCIETAL FADS that always end badly for our 99% of citizens. We love all our baby boomer STARS----we loved those DEPRESSION ERA-----WW 2 era global banking freemason STARS----music, theater, literary, TV and stage---but we KNOW they are working for OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS killing US 99% of WE THE PEOPLE and our best in world history FREEDOM, LIBERTY, JUSTICE, AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS US Constitutional republic.





WE ARE SHOUTING TO THOSE 5% PLAYERS MOVING FORWARD HILLARY NASTY LADY FAR-RIGHT WING, AUTHORITARIAN, MILITARISTIC, EXTREME WEALTH EXTREME POVERTY PRE-CHRISTIAN CATO/NERO/SENECA STOICISM----LIBERTARIAN MARXISM----YOU BETTER WAKE UP!


Southwest Baltimore as SOWEBO IS GLOBAL 1% UnderArmour campus and no global corporation was more brutal and enslaving in overseas FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES than UNDERARMOUR---not to mention their connections with global militarized policing MOVING FORWARD in our US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.


Nasty Women - Amelia White, Mary Battiata, Siobhán O'Brien
Public
· Hosted by Sowebo Music Series

Zella's Pizzeria
1145 Hollins St, Baltimore, Maryland 21223



Nasty Women of Americana - Three amazing songwriters from three different parts of the globe (Nashville, DC and Limerick, Ireland) , one night!


Nasty Women Review is a loose changeable collaborative of women songwriter friends who get together to sit in on each other’s tunes, and have a good time on stage. Every show is a super group of talent that attempts to bring out the best in each other. Although the round is a female fronted endeavor, guitar and multi instrumentalist Willem Elsevier brings his charm and chops to the mix. Expect to laugh, cry ,and get goosebumps. Unexpected Magic will be made before your very eyes.


AMELIA WHITE
Amelia White has an incredible new critically-acclaimed record, "Rhythm of the Rain," a very nice follow-up to 2016's release "Home Sweet Hotel," which landed on the year-end Telegraph UK Top 10 list with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Miller, Applewood Road, John Moreland, Rod Picott and others. The record was produced by Marco Giovino of Robert Plant, Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller's Band of Joy.


"Rhythm of the Rain" dropped in November in the UK, Continental Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and will release in the US this coming summer with several additional tracks. It has already received widespread four-star reviews and radio airplay across Europe, including several 2017 Best Of lists.


"Really rather fine it is...There's some great songwriting on this...Check it out, you will NOT be disappointed." - Ralph McLean, BBC
"Remarkable...it's hard not to hear the contrasting raw emotions in her distinctive vocal...with hints of Patti Smith in a dues-paid smoky bar patina. Sassy Americana at its best." RnR Magazine UK, 4 stars



"Amelia White manages something special in the world of Americana ...White is so much more than just a country singer and also so much more than just a songwriter. One of the best Americana albums I’ve heard recently." Music-news.com UK, 4 stars


"This is the real deal, full of juicy tunes...the woman just oozes cool...it's all killer no filler for sure...with an album as good as this, it's truly an appointment not to be missed, this is a chance to see East Nashville's finest at the top of her game - take it." - Americana UK 9/10



“An authentic, intelligent piece of music that demands more than a few plays in order for it to live and breathe….an intriguing and intelligent listen that, like the best of albums, reveals much of itself with repeated listens.” – Maverick UK, 4 stars of 5



Music
AMELIA WHITE
Amelia White has an incredible new critically-acclaimed record, "Rhythm of the Rain," a very nice follow-up to 2016's release "Home Sweet Hotel," which landed on the year-end Telegraph UK Top 10 list with the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Buddy Miller, Applewood Road, John Moreland, Rod Picott and others. The record was produced by Marco Giovino of Robert Plant, Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller's Band of Joy.



"Rhythm of the Rain" dropped in November in the UK, Continental Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and will release in the US this coming summer with several additional tracks. It has already received widespread four-star reviews and radio airplay across Europe, including several 2017 Best Of lists.
"Really rather fine it is...There's some great songwriting on this...Check it out, you will NOT be disappointed." - Ralph McLean, BBC




"Remarkable...it's hard not to hear the contrasting raw emotions in her distinctive vocal...with hints of Patti Smith in a dues-paid smoky bar patina. Sassy Americana at its best." RnR Magazine UK, 4 stars
"Amelia White manages something special in the world of Americana ...White is so much more than just a country singer and also so much more than just a songwriter. One of the best Americana albums I’ve heard recently." Music-news.com UK, 4 stars



"This is the real deal, full of juicy tunes...the woman just oozes cool...it's all killer no filler for sure...with an album as good as this, it's truly an appointment not to be missed, this is a chance to see East Nashville's finest at the top of her game - take it." - Americana UK 9/10
“An authentic, intelligent piece of music that demands more than a few plays in order for it to live and breathe….an intriguing and intelligent listen that, like the best of albums, reveals much of itself with repeated listens.” – Maverick UK, 4 stars of 5




WHO: Mary Battiata & Little Pink



WHAT: “Part twang, part folk, part pop” **
Mary’s newest record is “The Heart, Regardless,” released in June 2017. It features 13 original songs by Mary, recorded with a standout band of veteran and up-and-coming players from the Mid-Atlantic Country and Bluegrass scenes, plus very special guests Dudley Connell (The Seldom Scene), Mike Munford (2013 IBMA Banjo Player of the Year), Baltimore songwriter and bandleader Arty Hill and more. The stellar studio band was Tim Pruitt (guitars); Alex Weber (bass); Dave Hadley (pedal steel) and Ed Hough (drums). The record also includes memorable and defining contributions from Ray Eicher (pedal steel); B.J. Lazarus (mandolin); fiddle players Patrick McAvinue, Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Willem Elsevier; Larry Ferguson (drums and percussion); John Shock (accordion); and Chris Watling (accordion and baritone saxophone). “The Heart, Regardless” was co-produced by Mary and Dave Nachodsky at Nachodsky’s Invisible Sound Studios in Baltimore, MD. Hill helped with preproduction, and the record’s lone cover is a sprightly, soulful take on Hill’s instant Country classic, “Drive That Fast.”



mary
Mary’s previous recordings, “Gladly Would We Anchor” (Nightworld/2008) and “Cul-de-sac Cowgirl” (Adult Swim/2001), and the 2003 four-song Live EP “12 Birds” (Adult Swim), drew enthusiastic reviews from critics who likened the recordings, and Mary’s songwriting and singing, to the work of Rosanne Cash and Lucinda Williams, Sandy Denny and Richard-and-Linda Thompson-era Fairport Convention.



** from the review of “Gladly Would We Anchor” by John Conquest, Third Coast Music, Austin TX
...WHEN and WHERE: Mary tours from NYC to L.A. and points in between, including Austin (every March, for the NotSXSW side of the SXSW music festival), and the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery AL, and the Hank Williams Festival (in Georgiana). She has played at the famous Blue Door in Oklahoma City, and McCabe’s in Santa Monica and has played opening sets for Neko Case, Jim Lauderdale, Jon Langford, Alejandro Escovedo and Sam Baker, among others. In the Washington/Baltimore area, she can be seen at the IOTA Club (Arlington, Va.), the 1919 (Baltimore, Md.), the Black Cat and Gypsy Sally’s (Washington DC), and from time to time, The Birchmere and Strathmore Mansion. For the past two years, she has taught an evening class on creativity and nature imagery in country songwriting during Classic Country Music Week at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, W. Va.




HOW: Little Pink’s first CD, “Cul-de-sac Cowgirl,” (Adult Swim/2001) was recorded at Inner Ear Studio in Arlington Va., and Scary Clown Studio in Bethesda, Md. Its 12 tracks were co-produced by Karl Straub (Graverobbers, Karl Straub Combo), Philip Stevenson (Carnival of Souls, Quinine), and Mary. It was released on the Adult Swim label of Dischord co-founder and Minor Threat drummer Jeff Nelson. The recording won a Washington Area Music Award for Best Debut Recording and landed Mary on Harp Magazine’s annual short list of “12 Songwriters You Should Hear.” The next two Little Pink recordings, “Gladly Would We Anchor,” and the live EP, “12 Birds,” were produced by Philip Stevenson and Mary at Scary Clown and featured guitar work from Stevenson, Ben Peeler (the Mavericks; Shakira); and John Gnorski (Little Pink, Ghost Shirt), among others. The influential NYC music blog Lucid Culture named “Gladly” one of the top 50 records of 2008, in the company of releases by Aimee Mann, Elvis Costello, Burning Spear and the Bedsit Poets and the famously tough- minded music critic and journalist John Conquest (3rd Coast Music, Austin TX), named Mary to his 2008 list of Best Songwriters and gave “Gladly” four out of five stars.



Siobhán O'Brien
Siobhán O'Brien (born in Limerick, Ireland)
is an Irish Singer/Songwriter now living in the DC Metro Area.
She recently opened for Nick Lowe at the famed Birchmere Music hall (Oct 19th 2017) and was Mary Cliff's (Folk Radio dj icon) 'New Emerging Artist' at the North East Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) conference in Stamford, CT in nov 2017.
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Siobhán has performed for Bob Dylan, was guest vocalist with The Chieftains at Boston Symphony Hall, guest vocalist with The San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Her first album of cover songs 'Songs I Grew Up To' features Paddy Moloney (The Chieftains) on her versions of The 'Long Black Veil" and The "Lakes of Ponchartrain. O'Brien Headlined UK's only Bob Dylan Festival during the Levenshulme Festival, South Manchester UK. 2013. She joined the lineup with Christy Moore, Declan Sinnott and some of the biggest names in the Irish music business for a Benefit for Henry McCullough (McCartney & Wings Band), atVicar Street, Dublin Ireland which broadcast Live on RTE Radio. She has supported The Cranberries, Nick Lowe, Donovan , Maria McKee, and Irish stars Paul Brady, Mick Flannery and Damien Dempsey.
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She comes from four generations in the music business and is the niece of Brendan Bowyer (The Royal Show band). She is the great granddaughter of Albert Bowyer of The Bowyer Westwood Opera Company of Blackpool, England. She made her first musical recording of a sea shanty at the age of six. Her solo work incorporates traditions of American song, including folk, blues, rock,country, English, Scottish and Irish traditional music.


Siobhán O'Brien & The Chieftains performing at Boston Sy




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Returning to the policy of creating a COLD WAR to gather the world's nuclear elements for space travel and colonization----here is REAGAN again as the NUCLEAR BOMB KING-----coining the second policy term tied to space travel and colonization-----STAR WARS.

REAGAN era was that OLD WORLD PRE-CHRISTIAN CATO/SENECA MOVING FORWARD towards continuous wars.  CREATING FEAR AND PAIN-----tops on the LIBERTARIAN STOICISM list.  Nothing like threats of nuclear war to create reasons to spend trillions of US dollars on space travel/colonization. 

Hollywood as usual creates that global banking 1% FAD with our FREEMASON STARS----with the TV and movie series STAR WARS.  Space travel and exploration is great basic science-----most people love the knowledge gained from HUBBLE TELESCOPE and space craft throughout our solar system.  WE LOVE SPACE SCIENCE.  Global banking 1% of course corrupt public interest SCIENCE with SCIENCE FOR SCIENCE SAKE.....they are only in it for the money and power.  So, what could have taken hundreds of years to develop had to be developed NOW ergo sucking a thriving first world developed nation with the best quality of life DRY to fund an immediate SPACE COLONIZATION scheme because HUBBLE TELESCOPE of course has mapped out mineral deposits on all solar planets, moons, meteors.

WE COULD HAVE GOTTEN TO THIS GRADUALLY AND KEPT CIVIL SOCIETY -----BUT OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% WITH REAGAN/THATCHER/GORBACHEV wanted it NOW.

This is why global banking 1% media created all this MYTH-MAKING AND PROPAGANDA over national defense needs to build these nuclear arsenals with thousands of bombs.

REAGAN STARTED THIS STAR WARS----CLINTON/BUSH/OBAMA MOVED IT FORWARD AS NOW TRUMP.


See why global banking 1% had to kill free press and the strongest social progressive journalism for public interest 99%---filling our media with 5% freemason/Greek players.  Basic science becomes SHOW ME THE MONEY.




Cold War: A Brief History
Reagan's Star Wars

On March 23, 1983, President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based anti-missile system. This program was immediately dubbed "Star Wars."

An artist's rendering of an X-ray laser hit an incoming missile.


The SDI was intended to defend the United States from attack from Soviet ICBMs by intercepting the missiles at various phases of their flight. For the interception, the SDI would require extremely advanced technological systems, yet to be researched and developed. Among the potential components of the defense system were both space- and earth-based laser battle stations, which, by a combination of methods, would direct their killing beams toward moving Soviet targets. Air-based missile platforms and ground-based missiles using other non-nuclear killing mechanisms would constitute the rear echelon of defense and would be concentrated around such major targets as U.S. ICBM silos. The sensors to detect attacks would be based on the ground, in the air, and in space, and would use radar, optical, and infrared threat-detection systems.

This system would tip the nuclear balance toward the United States. The Soviets feared that SDI would enable the United States to launch a first-strike against them. Critics pointed to the vast technological uncertainties of the system, in addition to its enormous cost.
Although work was begun on the program, the technology proved to be too complex and much of the research was cancelled by later administrations. The idea of missile defense system would resurface later as the National Missile Defense.

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All of the gadgetry on STAR TREK and STAR WARS dealing with space weaponry is what our defense industry MOVED FORWARD these few decades of CONTINUOUS WARS and war weaponry.  Captain Kirk with the ENTERPRISE LAZERS AND CLOAKING SHIELDS are today's missile defense systems and drone cloaking.

Make no mistake, these weaponry are indeed EARTH's SMART CITIES DEEP, DEEP, REALLY DEEP STATE=====but the marketing these research as constant threats to national security is PUFFERY.

We KNOW the global 1% are BFF in MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE----we KNOW the global 1% Asian, Arabic, European are partnered in developing space colonization and planetary mining.  These movies about WARS IN SPACE-----not happening in this millennium.

  IT IS ALL ABOUT DEVELOPING SPACE TECHNOLOGY.


What better way to fund these space research then CONTINUOUS WARS building war products to advance space colonization and planetary mining.



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  2. Star Wars
Disney Now Has an Official 'Star Wars' YouTube Show
By Tom Huddleston Jr.
May 12, 2016



In case anyone was worried about there not being enough Star Wars on the Internet, Disney has you covered.



Walt Disney (dis, -0.32%) and Lucasfilm on Wednesday revealed The Star Wars Show—a new “digital variety series” that will stream a new episode every week on YouTube and will feature exclusive news and footage related to the massively popular franchise’s movies, television shows, video games, merchandise, and other related products. The show will also bring in celebrity guests to talk about their projects and their own Star Wars fandom.


The first episode of The Star Wars Show, which is hosted by actor Peter Townley and Lucasfilm digital communications manager Andi Gutierrez, debuted online on Wednesday and it featured Duncan Jones—director of Universal Pictures’ upcoming Warcraft movie, and also the son of the late David Bowie—as its first guest.



Kicking off the show’s first episode, which clocks in at just under nine minutes, Townley alluded to the Star Wars franchise’s own complicated episodic history when he joked that “everyone’s gonna love [the show] by the fourth episode, hopefully.”

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Our US national media during Clinton/Bush kept up all that KABUKI THEATER with a fight between right wing Republicans----FAR-RIGHT WING BUSH NEO-CONS---and Clinton neo-liberals ---FAR-RIGHT WING CLINTON BANKING 1%-----as to the funding and moving forward of what they called a MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM---STAR WARS.
BUSH-ERA super-sized space colonization STAR WARS technology even as CONGRESS we were told voted down these projects.
NASA becomes DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. Here we see JEB BUSH thinking all these STAR WARS movies should move the technology advances along faster----that OLD WORLD PRE-CHRISTIAN CATO/SENECA wanting to SEE THE MONEY.


Jeb thinking global banking 1% in US are not killing our US civil society fast enough to fund STAR WARS planetary mining colonies.

AS OUR THUG NOTES says in analyzing BEOWULF-----it's all about the BENJAMINS---when we allow global banking 1% to corrupt our morals and ethics----to place VIRTUE AND HONOR around secret society pledges to what is MORALLY CORRUPT-----all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens---LOSE.




'Sorry, George!' — Jeb Bush throws shade at 'Star Wars' prequels and tells us why he's excited for the new movie
Graham Flanagan and Maxwell Tani
Dec. 17, 2015, 4:33 PM




business insider


Count former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush among the fans and critics who think that director J.J. Abrams made the right move by leaning on "old-school" filmmaking techniques while making "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."


In an interview with Business Insider, Bush said that he's looking forward to seeing how Abrams attempted to recreate the aesthetic feel of the original films by shunning computer graphics whenever possible and shooting on film instead of digitally.

"I want to see the subtlety," Bush said. "They could've made massive technological advances, cause now, the technologies that are available to transform 'Star Wars' into something — you know, another futuristic movie. But it looks to me that they, with great subtlety, have made small advances. I want to see how that plays out, and how people respond to it. I think that'll be fascinating."

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We have discussed in detail the propaganda surrounding 5G microwave technology structures being built at north and south poles tied to a super-duper satellite system saturating EARTH's orbit with millions of satellites all tied to SPACE COLONIZATION AND PLANETARY MINING.....going to the MOON today building for MARS tomorrow.


The lazer, battery, energy platforms, SMART CITIES technology is all tied to WAR WEAPONS development which is tied to SPACE TRAVEL/COLONIZATION.



We are being sold everything from END TIMES-----to CLIMATE CHANGE causing the collapse of human race ALL FALSE----to MOVE FORWARD these goals benefiting ONLY THOSE GLOBAL 1%.....killing civil society and EARTH's environment for 99% of WE THE PEOPLE.

The answer to this question---as to the science claims of trying to create CLIMATE CHANGE WEATHER PROTECTION is what this article states----it is NOT POSSIBLE--we do not have enough natural resources to build a totally worthless missile defense or climate change weather control-----------we have known this since the 1990s


'Back here on Earth, Star Wars -- the missile defense, not the movie -- is also back. Uneasy about our present vulnerability to missile attack, Congress wants a decision about deployment of "national missile defense," a system capable of protecting all 50 states. But it's highly uncertain whether we can build a system that could vanquish enough incoming missiles'.



Star wars -- the sequel, not the prequel! Missile defense lives!

The first launch of a THAAD missile.




18 JUNE 1999.


Obi-Wan Kenobi and company have begun their crusade against the dark side in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. We trust, when five more money-making sequels are screened, that good will eventually triumph over evil.




Back here on Earth, Star Wars -- the missile defense, not the movie -- is also back. Uneasy about our present vulnerability to missile attack, Congress wants a decision about deployment of "national missile defense," a system capable of protecting all 50 states. But it's highly uncertain whether we can build a system that could vanquish enough incoming missiles.


U P D A T E
(posted 8 MARCH 2000)

A former employee of the military contractor TRW has charged the company with faking test results in the $27-billion missile defense program. Nira Schwartz, who worked on Star Wars software in 1995 and 1996, says the company dodged the truth in repeated reports to the Pentagon. Here's how the New York Times explained it: "In test after test, the interceptors failed, she has alleged, but her superiors insisted that the technology performed adequately, refused her appeals to tell industrial partners and federal patrons of its shortcomings, and then fired her."


The issue concerned the ability to distinguish real warheads from decoy balloons, a critical capacity for missile defense. In papers filed in federal court, Schwartz charged that while TRW told the government that its system made the correct distinction 95 percent of the time, in reality it worked 5 percent to 15 percent of the time.


See "Ex-Employee Says Contractor Faked Results of Missile Tests," William Broad, The New York Times, March 7, 2000, p. A1.


Sixteen years ago, not long after the first of the Star Wars epics, President Ronald Reagan promoted a missile defense as protection against nuclear missiles from another evil empire -- the Soviet Union. Given the Reagan administration's timing and the preference for orbiting battle stations, the plan was inevitably dubbed "Star Wars."



The protagonists of Star Wars -- the movie -- fought with light sabers. In Star Wars -- the missile defense -- incoming missiles would supposedly be vaporized in another kind of light -- gigantic lasers. And these lasers would not be the product of Hollywood graphics, but rather high-tech radars, rockets, satellites, and ultra-fast computers.


Star Wars -- the missile defense -- was never built, despite the expenditure of $100 billion for research and development, a number that dwarfs even the LucasFilm rake-in for the ceaseless tide of Star Wars movies and merchandise.



Still relevant?

Right from the first, the Star Wars dream ran into problems. While Star Wars -- the movies -- are guaranteed moneymakers, the missile defense carries no guarantee whatsoever. And after $100 billion, whacking incoming missiles remains a daunting challenge. Only two of 14 tests succeeded -- most recently in 1991 -- and the tests were not held in realistic battle conditions.




Technical problems were not the only difficulty. Critics warned that missile defense would upset the familiar but terrifying situation of mutual assured destruction, which prevented the massively armed opponents of the Cold War from vaporizing each other. Critics predicted that enemies would respond by building more weapons and making them harder to locate. In sum, they argued, missile defense would accelerate the arms race and make the planet more dangerous.


Since the Soviet Union went belly-up in 1989, the political-military backdrop for the missile defense discussion has utterly changed. Russia's nuclear weapons are under uncertain stewardship. The nuclear club has expanded to eight, and missile technology is likewise spreading. Threats, in other words, are coming from different directions.



In this changed geopolitical landscape, Congress has revived the idea of missile defense. In May, a decisive majority in the House affirmed a Senate bill calling for deployment as soon as technologically feasible.


The best defense is a good defense


This time around, the goals and methods of the missile defense project have been trimmed to reflect today's situation. Star Wars 1.0, the Reagan version, was supposed to protect against a massive Soviet attack with thousands of warheads. Version 2.0, the one Congress has put on the table, is intended to protect against tiny attacks by a nation with a few nukes, or against accidental launches by Russia or China. Given the rocky history of test failures, that's a more realistic goal -- although still something that can't be done today. A second scaling-back concerned technology. Those futuristic lasers have been replaced by impact vehicles -- dubbed "smart rocks."




A day time photo of a THAAD launch truck.


But whacking a speeding missile with anything -- rock, laser or bow and arrow, for that matter -- remains a thorny problem. It's not just the 13 percent success rate for national missile defense that's at issue here. A more localized version, the Theater High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), has already failed six straight tests. The latest test, on May 25, was scrubbed when the target rocket tumbled out of control.


How would missile defense work? Even if a system worked in a test, could we rely on it to actually stop warheads? And would the defense increase safety -- or hazards?

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When we read the public policy discussions surrounding downsizing our US military-------dealing with the air force--------we hear Congress suggest that today's US AIR FORCE can be eliminated because it has these few decades been enfolded into NASA AND SPACE program.  This is not public policy downsizing our military complex or spending-----it is simply a shift from what was civil defense to what is space planetary mining colonization goals.

We had a comment on our posts this week regarding continuous wars as simply the goal of space technology development ---and the goal of creating manufactured WW 3 to destroy civil structures in Western nations---like East and West Europe, US, and Canada.  Bringing US cities filled with decaying communities down========felling empty buildings=====is not as TARGETED as global banking 1% pretends.  The civilian casualties and property losses cross all 99% of WE THE PEOPLE black, white, and brown citizens as well as our US global 99% of new immigrant citizens.  Any use of these war/US city militarized policing policies is not tied to ENEMIES ----it is tied to ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE US CITIES DEEMED FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.


We can hear our US 5% to the 1% selling this cheap demotion as good for our communities and job creation.

Remember, AMAZON.COMN BEZOS is partnered with Department of Defense DRONE program bringing global militarized security and policing to our US cities deemed FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.




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New Stealth Bomber Could Control Drones, Fire Lasers, Bust Bunkers

The Air Force's new stealth bomber might do more than just drop bombs, top generals said in recent days. The so-called "Long-Range Strike" plane – likely to be designated B-3 – could also carry bunker-busting, rocket-boosted munitions, high-powered lasers for self-defense and datalinks, and consoles for controlling radar-evading drones.


These add-ons, described by Air Force generals Philip Breedlove, William Fraser and David Scott, are meant to make the new bomber more lethal and harder to shoot down, even in the face of rapidly-modernizing air defenses such as China's. "The purpose of this aircraft is to survive in an Anti-Access Area Denial environment,”Scott said, using the latest Pentagon term for defended airspace.

To that end, the bomber's lasers might zap incoming missiles and fighters; the drones could fly ahead to scout and disable air-defense radars; the bunker-busters should ensure the bomber can actually destroy the enemy's facilities once it breaks through the defenses.


With just $3.7 billion budgeted over the next five years to develop the bomber, lasers, bunker-busters, and drone-controls might seem unaffordable. And risky, considering the Air Force has said it must stick with "proven" technologies to keep the new bomber on-budget.
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Most of the discussion about START TREATY retooling with city busting multi-warhead bombs comes tied to DRONE warfare as OBAMA and his ASYMMETRIC retooling of our US military these several years is MOVING FORWARD.  Having an OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS ROYAL NAVY with long-range BALLISTIC MISSILES/DRONES was the goal of START TREATY retooling of our nuclear arsenal.  Remember, one warhead now having multiple bombs has media selling the idea there is a downsizing of US/Russian nuclear arsenals.

We will end this week's discussion on military weapons public policy by simply asking 99% US WE THE PEOPLE to think about these structures being installed not only offshore of US but inside our US cities deemed Foreign Economic Zones and what goals global banking 1% working for OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS may have in MOVING FORWARD. 

Whether one believes that the Asian global 1% hates those Arabic global 1% hates those European global 1% rather than all simply ONE WORLD friends------if one thinks these are all enemies and we need these MASSIVE MILITARY COMPLEXES for sovereign defense-----please take time to think about the fact we already know------if a nuclear device is detonated an immediate response will occur. 

THERE IS NO WAR WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY AS STAR WARS CAPABLE OF ALL THAT NATIONAL MEDIA AND GLOBAL BANKING 1% ARE SELLING.


All this is simply funding what is space planetary mining technology.


'Bangor is home to eight of the Navy's 14 ballistic-missile submarines. Each can carry up to 24 missiles with multiple nuclear warheads'.


Is it today's job or tomorrow's future for our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE? We will not have both. IT IS NOT JUST ANY JOB.



Drones above Bangor has Navy Base Buzzing

Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, Wash. By Ed Friedrich



BANGOR — Who's flying drones over the Bangor submarine base? The Navy wants to know.


On Feb. 8, a drone was seen flying above Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor and reported by a civilian employee, spokeswoman Silvia Klatman said.


The airspace above the base is designated as "prohibited." It's illegal and hazardous to operate there without permission and coordination of authorities, according to the Navy, which is investigating.


"It's our intent to support the investigation and prosecution of this reported act, and any others that may occur, in coordination with civilian law enforcement," Klatman said. She wouldn't provide more information while the investigation is ongoing except to say the Navy is committed to the security of its infrastructure, people and neighbors.


Agents interviewed neighbors outside the fence last week, said Al Starcevich, whose family's 110-year-old homestead on Olympic View Road is pinched between the base and Hood Canal. He told a couple of men in suits that he hadn't seen anything unusual. The drones were reported at night.


"It could be a hoax, but worst-case scenario, it could be clandestine, a foreign government, a cell," Starcevich said. "The creepy thing is they're only doing it at night. What are you going to see at night unless you have an infrared camera?"


Kitsap Drones owner Joe Sullivan hasn't heard from the Navy or about drones over bases.
"I keep up on all the drone news," he said. "Every drone pilot I know knows that all of Bangor is a no-fly zone."


On Friday it became much easier to track down drone owners, he said. A regulation kicked in requiring all drones of more than 0.55 pounds be registered with the FAA.
Drones can fly at night, at least for now. In fact, they can go farther in the dark because it's easier to see their green and red flashing lights, Sullivan said. They must always remain within the pilot's sight.


The FAA designated the airspace above Bangor as "prohibited" in May 2005 at the Navy's request. No aircraft, including drones, can fly from the surface up to 2,500 feet. Besides the base itself, the area extends to the water across Hood Canal and the Navy-owned portion of the Toandos Peninsula.


Security forces are supposed to shoot down violators but have yet to do so, said Doug O'Donnell, chief pilot at Avian Flight Center at Bremerton National Airport. NCIS agents have shown up at the airport, looking for planes they claim were too low.
O'Donnell said he recommends that pilots keep a comfortable distance above 2,500 feet to prevent confusion from trackers on the ground.


Bangor is home to eight of the Navy's 14 ballistic-missile submarines. Each can carry up to 24 missiles with multiple nuclear warheads.

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When we hear joking about WHO INVENTED THE INTERNET------it is the same OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS corporation----MITRE CORPORATION.  Here we see its creation in 1958-----under MILITARY GENERAL EISENHOWER.  Our national media loves to sell EISENHOWER as warning US citizens of the danger of growing MILITARY COMPLEX as if he was concerned for 99% US WE THE PEOPLE.  Eisenhower we see below installed what has been allowed to become that ALL-ENCOMPASSING SECRET SOCIETY tied to OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% CATHOLIC  KINGS AND QUEENS  KNIGHT OF MALTA/HOSPITALER continuous wars pre-Christian ROMAN CATO/SENECA continuous wars.

What was tied to our US commercial airlines and aviation control ---which was GOOD------was this massive control center calling itself a NON-PROFIT controlling public policy and NGOs implementing public policy ----what we call those global banking 5% 'labor and justice' organizations pretending to help 99% WE THE PEOPLE while simply MOVING FORWARD ONE WORLD ONE GOVERNANCE for only the global 1%.

The MITRE CORPORATION is the structure behind the massive organization of these few decades of ROBBER BARON FRAUDS and fleecing of America------filled with 5% freemason/Greeks tied to KNIGHTS OF MALTA and other OLD WORLD KINGS AND QUEENS freemason groups.


This organization is no more US----then the installation of US FED in early 1900s-----capturing our US economy to global banking 1%.

What does MITRE mean?  MITRE is the cap worn by Catholic BISHOPS serving OLD WORLD global 1% KINGS AND QUEENS.  So, it is no coincidence that MITRE CORPORATION created by US PRESIDENT Eisenhower is today's primary source of our 5% to the 1% freemason/Greeks black, white, and brown citizens.


Rick Joyner – Dressed as a Knight of Malta


by Deborah (Discerning the World) · Published 6 April, 2010 · Updated 29 June, 2017


Doesn’t Rick Joyner (right) look just smashing in this Freemasonry Knight of Malta outfit.

“This Order, which at various times in the progress of its history received the names of Knights Hospitalers, Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of Rhodes, and lastly, Knights of Malta, was one of the most important of the religious and military orders of knighthood which sprang into existence during the Crusades which were instituted for the recovery of the Holy Land. It owes its origin to the Hospitalers of Jerusalem, that wholly religious and charitable Order which was established at Jerusalem, in 1048, by pious merchants of Amalfi for the succor of poor and distressed Latin pilgrims…


“The Organization of the Order in its days of prosperity was very complicated, partaking of both a monarchial and a republican character. Over all presided a Grand Master, who, although invested with extensive powers, was still controlled by the legislative action of the General Chapter…”



“…There are now two bodies-one Catholic and the other Protestant, but each repudiates the other…”
“The degree of Knights of Malta is conferred in the United States as “an appendant Order” in a Commandery of Knights Templar. There is a ritual attached to the degree, but very few are in possession of it, and it is generally communicated after the candidate has been created a Knights Templar…”

We do not SENSATIONALIZE-----so we do not believe these systems installed inside US are impregnable-----as what drives our 5% players to say----JUST GIVE UP.  We don't as well think many of our US 5% players are HAPPY CAMPERS.  Most are simply trying to have employment----and all will be thrown under the bus in MOVING FORWARD for only the global 1%.

We see with the original goals of creation of KNIGHTS OF MALTA and HOSPITALERS during continuous wars by global 1% our health care system has been privatized largely to these OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% FREEMASON groups........GATEWAY MEDICINE tied to systemic frauds of our US MEDICARE AND MEDICAID TRUSTS.

THESE ARE THE EUROPEAN NATION GLOBAL 1% DRIVING CONTINUOUS WARS AND START TREATY NUCLEAR WEAPON PROPAGANDA MOVING FORWARD PLANETARY MINING TO MAXIMIZE WEALTH AND POWER FOR THOSE GLOBAL 1%.


When we FIX BALTIMORE or any of our US cities we must get rid of global banking 1% 'labor and justice' organizations tied to GLOBAL NGOs with MITRE CORPORATION being most tied to endless wars-----pre-Christian CATO/SENECA stoicism-----recognizing only the rich.


We don't believe data given in these corporate details----but we do recognize what 99% WE THE PEOPLE think is a massive network is easy peasy to be RID OF---

Number of employees8,425'

We must understand the problems in public policy to get to a REAL 99% solution. Simply getting rid of those 5% global banking pols and players --


1958 in the United States - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki

/1958_in_the_United_States
August 23 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the U.S. signs the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, transferring all authority over aviation in the U.S. to the newly created Federal Aviation Agency (FAA, later renamed Federal Aviation Administration).




'Mitre also worked on a number of projects with ARPA, including precursors to the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)'.







Mitre Corporation


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


"MITRE" redirects here. For other uses, see Mitre (disambiguation).


The Mitre Corporation


TypeNot-for-profit corporation
Founded1958; 60 years ago


HeadquartersBedford, MA and McLean, VA, United States
Key peopleJason Providakes
President & CEO
RevenueUS$ 1.484 billion
Number of employees8,425


Websitewww.mitre.org.


 Mitre Corporation (stylized as The MITRE Corporation and MITRE) is an American not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. It manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) supporting several U.S. government agencies.





OrganizationMitre is organized as follows:



CenterSponsored byScopeEstablishedRefs


National Security Engineering Center
Department of Defense

National security issues



Center for Advanced Aviation System Development

Federal Aviation Administration


Air traffic managementOctober 1, 1990



Center for Enterprise Modernization

Internal Revenue Service and Department of Veterans Affairs.


Enterprise modernization
July 1998


Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute

Department of Homeland Security

To safeguard people in the United States against terrorist threats, aid the flow of legal commerce and immigration, and recover swiftly from natural disasters and other national emergencies

March 6, 2009



Judiciary Engineering and Modernization Center

Administrative Office of the United States Courts


December 2, 2010


CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare


Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

October 2012


National Cybersecurity FFRDC

National Institute of Standards and Technology


September 24, 2014



Additionally, internal research and development explores new technologies and ways to apply existing tools and technologies.


Among other efforts, Mitre maintains the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system and the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) project. Since 1999, the Mitre Corporation functions as editor and primary CNA of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). CVE is now the industry standard for vulnerability and exposure names, providing reference points for data exchange so that information security products and services can interoperate with each other.



History

The Mitre Center at Mitre's campus in Bedford

Mitre building in McLean, Virginia


Under the leadership of C. W. Halligan, Mitre was formed in 1958 to provide overall direction to the companies and workers involved in the U.S. Air Force SAGE project. Most of the early employees were transferred to Mitre from the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where SAGE was being developed. In April 1959, a site was purchased in Bedford, Massachusetts, near Hanscom Air Force Base, to develop a new Mitre laboratory, which Mitre occupied in September 1959.[18]


After the SAGE project ended in the early 1960s, the FAA selected Mitre to develop a similar system to provide automated air traffic control. The result of the project formed the National Airspace System (NAS), that is still in use today. To support the NAS project and continual operations with the U.S. Department of Defense at the Pentagon, Mitre opened a second "main office" in McLean, Virginia.


Through the 1960s, Mitre developed and supported military Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) projects, including the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). Mitre also worked on a number of projects with ARPA, including precursors to the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). Since the 1960s, Mitre has developed or supported most DoD early warning and communications projects, including the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) and the Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS).



In 1982, the Mitre Corporation authored a proposal for the State Department called "Cannabis Eradication in Foreign Western Nations." In this proposal, a plan was outlined to eradicate cannabis in participating nations within 121 days, for $19 million. The report discussed the use and safety considerations of paraquat. The plan would have been to aerially dispense paraquat over marijuana crops. One safety concern was the food crops grown alongside the marijuana crops being contaminated. A study conducted on rats by Imperial Chemical Industries was cited in the report, and claimed low health risks for paraquat. The U.S. Public Health Service commented on this study saying that due to the present squamous metaplasia in the respiratory tracts of the rats that "This study should not be used to calculate the safe inhalation dose of paraquat in humans."[19]



During the 1980s, the German hacker Markus Hess used an unsecured Mitre Tymnet connection as an entry point for intrusions into U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and NASA computer networks.


On July 10, 1985, mitre.org was the first .org domain name registered, and it remains in use by the company today.


On January 29, 1996, Mitre divided into two entities: The Mitre Corporation, to focus on its FFRDCs for DoD and FAA; and a new company, named Mitretek Systems (now called Noblis), to assume non-FFRDC work for other U.S. Government agencies.

HOW NOBLE OF NOBLIS!


In 2005, a team from Mitre competed in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and qualified in 23rd place for the final race

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When we talk missile launchers for MOTHERS' OF ALL BOMBS and CITY BUSTER multi-head bombs----we are talking about the same technology used by global corporate SPACE X in its now privatized NASA------missile boosters for its rockets. Remember, SPACE X was our US National Space Agency----allowed to be given as a present from DADDY MUSK ------that OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS player to his son ELON in buying patented technology our 99% aeronautical geniuses developed. ELON is called exceptional because he gets handed a global corporation built by 99% US taxpayers.

There is no difference in technologies of war and technologies of SPACE TRAVEL. When we read there is another NUCLEAR WEAPONS TREATY is simply means SPACE TECHNOLOGY advances partnered with global military corporation bomb delivery are MOVING FORWARD.

Just think if our 99% global geniuses did not work to MOVE FORWARD continuous wars and destruction.




SpaceX lands its rocket on a barge:

Elon Musk confirms Falcon touched down but tipped over in groundbreaking experiment



  • SpaceX made its third attempt to land a booster on an ocean platform
  • But the booster tipped over after hitting its target and was destroyed
  • Falcon 9 is on its way to the ISS with supplies and will arrive Friday
  • Cargo includes first espresso machine designed for use in space 

By Ellie Zolfagharifard For Dailymail.com


Published: 14:39 EDT, 14 April 2015 | Updated: 20:15 EDT, 15 April 2015


A historic SpaceX launch that could change the way man gets to space blasted off today from Florida under perfect conditions. 


Within minutes of liftoff, the California company was making its third attempt to land the leftover booster on an ocean platform. 


But it didn't go to plan. Billionaire founder, Elon Musk, tweeted: 'Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.'


SpaceX said it will post a video in the next few days, but images tweeted by Musk reveal that the booster landed successfully.


The impact of landing, however, caused it to tip over destroying the lower part of the rocket.  
Landing the rocket upright was always going to be tricky. SpaceX once compared it to balancing a broomstick on your hand. 


Musk had put 50-50 odds on the attempt being successful and said that improvements to the design would happen throughout the year. 


Despite being destroyed, the booster's flyback marks another step in the company's quest to develop rockets that can be refurbished and reflown, potentially slashing launch costs.


'This might change completely how we approach transportation to space,' SpaceX Vice President Hans Koenigsman told reporters during a prelaunch press conference.


The booster was programmed, following separation 2.5 minutes after liftoff, to flip around and fly to the platform dubbed 'Just Read the Instructions' in the Atlantic ocean

While the booster landing didn't go to plane, the launch was successful. It took place at 4.10 ET from Florida under perfect conditions, after a attempt had to be scrubbed on Monday due to lightning




The 208ft (63 metre) tall Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Dragon capsule, thundered off its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:10 p.m.
The Falcon 9 is on now its way to deliver 4,300lb (1,950 kg) of food, clothing and science experiments to the ISS - including an eagerly awaited espresso machine for astronauts.
The supplies should arrive the six space station astronauts on Friday. 


The rocket was was due to take off yesterday, but the launch was scrubbed due to bad weather. 
On board the Dragon capsule is an experimental espresso machine intended for International Space Station astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy.
The Italians in charge of the project hope to revolutionise coffee-drinking in space.
SpaceX, meanwhile, hoped to transform the rocket business by landing the first-stage booster on a platform floating a few hundred miles off Florida's northeastern coast, near Jacksonville.
The Dragon - the only supply ship capable of returning items intact - will remain at the ISS until around May 21


At liftoff time, the orbiting lab was soaring over Australia. The delivery of food and equipment will arrive Friday


Soon after the launch, Elon Musk tweeted: 'Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival'


Dragon, the SpaceX supply ship, holds more than 4,000 pounds of food, science experiments and equipment for the six space station astronauts

Musk's plan is to reuse his booster rockets rather than discard them as is the custom around the world, to reduce launch costs.

First-stage boosters normally just slam into the Atlantic and sink.


The booster was programmed, following separation 2.5 minutes after liftoff, to flip around and fly to the platform dubbed 'Just Read the Instructions.'

The Dragon — the only supply ship capable of returning items intact — will remain at the space station until around May 21.


During a previous landing attempt in January, the rocket ran out of hydraulic fluid for its steering fins, causing it to crash into the platform.
A second attempt in February was called off because of high seas, but the rocket successfully ran through its pre-programmed landing sequence and hovered vertically above the waves before splashing down and breaking apart.

Musk's plan is to reuse his booster rockets rather than discard them as is the custom around the world, to reduce launch costs

The launch sequence as it happened. All stages of the launch went to plan, except for the landing of the lower part of the rocket. SpaceX once compared it to balancing a broomstick on your hand


On board the Dragon capsule is an experimental espresso machine intended for International Space Station astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy 


HOW WILL THE ESPRESSO MACHINE WORK IN SPACE? The ISSpresso machine uses a normal Lavazza coffee capsule, which is posted in the top of the machine.
Water is aspirated and pressurised in a unique electrical system and is then heated.


The granules mix with the hot water and the coffee is piped into a pouch, which is securely fastened to the machine using a 'rapid coupling/uncoupling system.'
Astronauts drink the coffee straight from the pouch using a straw.


Musk recently unveiled the images of the Falcon 9 failed landing after persuasion on Twitter by the game pioneer behind Doom, John Carmack.


The images show the rocket approaching the barge following last month's attempt. After it fails to reduce its speed, the rocket is seen crashing at an angle and exploding.


Billionaire Musk described the event simply as a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly'.
As well as the espresso machine, the SpaceX Dragon supply ship also holds experiments for Nasa's one-year space station resident Scott Kelly, who moved in a couple weeks ago.


Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko also will remain on board until March 2016.
This will be the California-based SpaceX company's seventh station supply run since 2012, all from Cape Canaveral.


SpaceX is one of two companies hired by Nasa to fly cargo to the station following the retirement of the space shuttles. 
As well as a recently extended 15-flight, $2 billion contract with Nasa, SpaceX is working on a passenger version of the Dragon capsule and has dozens of contracts to deliver commercial communications satellites into orbit.


The company also is working on a heavy-lift version of the Falcon rocket, which uses 27 engines, compared to the nine currently flying. 
The Falcon Heavy is expected to make its first test flight late this year.

At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to boost a Dragon capsule on its fifth commercial resupply mission. This image was taken on Monday, before the attempt was scrubbed due to bad weather


This was Space X' third attempt to land a rocket booster on a barge. Pictured is group's first attempt to put the stage on an autonomous landing platform at sea, which was held in position using deep-sea oil rigs. The attempt ended in fuel and oxygen combining in an explosion
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We discussed in detail how US/USSR NUCLEAR RACE during 1980s was never a COLD WAR-------it was always global banking 1% cornering the market on plutonium understanding the value of DECAYED PLUTONIUM as SPACE fuel. So, while national media sold the FAKE NEWS of nuclear race it always had a goal of simply being stored in bomb casings and allowed to decay to a usable space fuel as we see below------

When OBAMA was told to pretend to dismantle our NUCLEAR ARSENAL with Russia--------he was simply retooling that arsenal to dismantle REAGAN-ERA bombs filled now with that decayed plutonium now being handed to SPACE X and Russia's privatized space travel corporation no doubt for free-----

These new nuclear technologies tied to bombs and missile launchers and guidance are being geared to installation on SPACE SHIPS -----STAR WARS starts with CITY BUSTER BOMBS.



'Plutonium-238 - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-238

Plutonium-238 was the first isotope of plutonium to be discovered. It was synthesized by Glenn Seaborg and associates in December, 1940 by bombarding uranium-238 with deuterons, creating neptunium-238, which then decays to form plutonium-238. Plutonium-238 decays to uranium-234 and then further along the ... '




We see here the article speaks of 30-YEAR WAIT---------it makes these technologies seem to be just happening when of course the WAITING was tied to REAGAN era nuclear arsenal and that decay process. TEAM USSR/US then----is TEAM RUSSIA/US today. Global banking 1% are BFF ----no tensions.

Again, REAL LEFT social progressives were shouting against all this in 1980-90s-----we KNEW what this nuclear race was taking all our Federal public school funding----and we knew the MASTER PLAN MOVING FORWARD in our US cities being designated FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONES.




Space Fuel: Plutonium-238 Created After 30-Year Wait


By Jeanna Bryner, Live Science Managing Editor | December 30, 2015 08:11am ET


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Space Fuel: Plutonium-238 Created After 30-Year Wait



Scientists mixed neptunium oxide with aluminum and pressed the result into pellets. They then irradiated the pellets to create neptunium-238, which decayed quickly into plutonium-238.


Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists have produced a powder of plutonium-238 for the first time in nearly 30 years in the United States, a milestone that they say sets the country on a path toward powering NASA's deep-space exploration and other missions.

Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) is a radioactive element, and as it decays, or breaks down into uranium-234, it releases heat. That heat can then be used as a power source; for instance, some 30 space missions, including the Voyager spacecraft, which explored the solar system's outer planets in the 1970s, have relied on the oxide form of the plutonium isotope. (An isotope is atom of an element with a different number of neutrons.)

During the Cold War, the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina was pumping out Pu-238. "Those reactors were shut down in 1988, and the U.S. has not had the capability to make new material since then," said Bob Wham, who leads the project for the Nuclear Security and Isotope Technology Division at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). [8 Rare Elements That You've Never Heard Of]

After U.S. production of the isotope stopped, Russia supplied the Pu-238 needed for space missions. However, Russia has also stopped producing the material. Two years ago, NASA began funding a new effort to produce plutonium-238, giving about $15 million a year to the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy.

Plutonium-238 is an ideal power source for space missions for several reasons, including the element's so-called half-life of about 88 years. Half-life is the time it takes for half of the atoms of an element to decay. That means the isotope's heat output won't be reduced to half for 88 years. Plutonium-239, which has a half-life of 24,110 years, is the isotope most commonly formed from uranium in nuclear reactors, according to the World Nuclear Association.

In addition, "it's stable at high temperatures, can generate substantial heat in small amounts and emits relatively low levels of radiation that is easily shielded, so mission-critical instruments and equipment are not affected," Wham said.

In the new achievement, Wham and his colleagues created 50 grams (1.8 ounces) of Pu-238 — about one-eighth of a cup (30 milliliters) — or enough to characterize the substance, he said.

Because the scientists were using existing infrastructure at the Department of Energy, they needed to adapt the plutonium-making process. "For example, the current DOE operating research reactors are smaller than those used at Savannah River," Wham said. "Therefore, we need to modify the technology to work within the existing operating reactors."

Next, the scientists will test the purity of the sample and work on scaling up the manufacturing process.

"Once we automate and scale up the process, the nation will have a long-range capability to produce radioisotope power systems such as those used by NASA for deep-space exploration," Wham said.

The next NASA mission with a plan to use such radioisotope power is the Mars 2020 rover, set for launch in July 2020, the researchers said. The rover will be designed to look for signs of life on the Red Planet, collect rock and soil samples for testing on Earth, and investigate technology for human exploration.

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Below we see our FAKE NEWS media POPULAR SCIENCE------creating propaganda in the world of war and bombs---and space science. Remember, they are the ones calling these global banking 1% military weapon race END TIMES.

We simply want to make this point: what was called REAGAN/GORBACHEV NUCLEAR TREATY in 1980s=====was always simply storage of nuclear material for nuclear decay to be used for SPACE FUEL. Flash forward to OBAMA/PUTIN START TREATY==== that REAGAN era nuclear material now decayed is ready for ELON MUSK SPACE X -----that was what drove Obama/Clinton neo-liberals in pushing START TREATY.
Looking across our US national media we see the same propaganda hiding the real goals of what is privatized to global banking 1% today.
The reason our US 99% WE THE PEOPLE must stand up against MOVING FORWARD -----UNITED NATIONS/WORLD BANK SUSTAINABILITY being allowed to be called GREEN/ENVIRONMENTAL-----is global corporate sustainability and kills 99% of US and global citizens.

All the PUFFERY is being used by national media because OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1%----NOT AMERICAN----are taking US taxpayers, our government agencies for all we are worth with plans of using these military/planetary mining slave colonies technology AGAINST 99% WE THE PEOPLE.

We had this same discussion several years ago when OBAMA and Clinton neo-liberals were pushing behind closed doors START TREATY. Those dastardly 5% pols and players KNOW these goals.




Space
Plutonium-238 Is Produced In America For The First Time In Almost 30 Years

Made in the USA
By Mary Beth Griggs December 23, 2015 POPULAR SCIENCE


Plutonium-238


Plutonium-238


The recently created plutonium-238 oxide in a 'hot cell' at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Jason Richards/ORNL


Plutonium-238 is the fuel that is driving the Mars rover Curiosity across the Martian landscape.
It flew the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto and beyond, and is still powering the Voyager probe into the depths of space 38 years after it was launched. It's a fuel that is in high demand and very short supply.



Last year, it came to light that there was only enough plutonium-238 to make three more batteries for NASA missions,
a potentially devastating shortfall, and one that NASA has been working to remedy. Now, it seems like there is hope. This week, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that in collaboration with NASA, they have succeeded in producing plutonium-238, the first time the substance has been made on American soil in 27 years.



It's been a long time coming. In 2013, funding for the project was secured, and the slow wheels of production started rolling. Now, two years later, the process has yielded 50 grams (1.8 ounces) of precious plutonium-238, the first to be made in the country since the Savannah River Plant closed down in 1988. It's not a very large amount--the Mars 2020 rover, for example, needs about 8.8 pounds of the stuff to operate--but it's a start.


Plutonium-238 is different from plutonium used in nuclear weapons and power stations, though it is still highly radioactive.
As plutonium-238 decays into Uranium-234, it gives off huge amounts of heat, enough to be harnessed into electric energy in NASA's nuclear batteries, called radioisotope thermoelectric generators or RTGs. The heat has an additional benefit of keeping scientific instruments warm enough to function in the frigid void of space.


Plutonium-238 started out as a byproduct of the nuclear bomb-making process, but eventually as nuclear weapons ceased to be manufactured, the supply dried up, first in the United States, then in Russia. There is now only about 77 pounds left in the United States, and only about half of that is still of high enough quality to be used on space missions. The DOE and NASA hope that next year they will be able to produce 12 ounces of plutonium-238, eventually scaling up to producing 3.3 pounds per year.


Watch the DOE's short video about their achievement (complete with Back To The Future clips) below.

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The intrigue of PUTIN/TRUMP looking just like that of REAGAN/GORBACHEV -----all 4 working for same OLD WORLD GLOBAL 1% KINGS AND QUEENS.


First, Trump was never elected same as George Bush so anything happening while he is in office can be VOIDED. Second, if 99% of US WE THE PEOPLE continue to educate through only propaganda and myth-making US national media especially now that our local media and public universities once HOLDING POWER ACCOUNTABLE with REAL NEWS are now owned by these global media corporations-----we will allow to MOVE FORWARD one of the most brutal periods in civil society in world history.


FAR-RIGHT, AUTHORITARIAN, MILITARISTIC, EXTREME WEALTH EXTREME POVERTY LIBERTARIAN MARXISM TODAY WILL MAKE THOSE CALIGULAS AND NEROS AS STOIC MARTIAL PRE-CHRISTIAN ROME LOOK LIKE BOY SCOUTS.


Those 5% to the 1% freemason/Greek players all being told ------tell them MOVING FORWARD has gone too far to STOP----just surrender! OH, REALLY??   We see rolling peaceful protests for weeks and months in our future demanding those 5% black, white, and brown players get out of our PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT.


World News
February 9, 2017 / 12:11 PM / a year ago


Exclusive: In call with Putin, Trump denounced Obama-era nuclear arms treaty - sources
Jonathan Landay, David Rohde


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.

When Putin raised the possibility of extending the 2010 treaty, known as New START, Trump paused to ask his aides in an aside what the treaty was, these sources said.

Trump then told Putin the treaty was one of several bad deals negotiated by the Obama administration, saying that New START favored Russia. Trump also talked about his own popularity, the sources said.


The White House declined to comment on the details of the call. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Trump knew what the New START treaty is but had turned to his aides for an opinion during the call with Putin. He said the notes from the call would not have conveyed that.


“I would say they had a very productive call,” Spicer told reporters. He added, “It wasn’t like he didn’t know what was being said. He wanted an opinion on something.”
It has not been previously reported that Trump had conveyed his doubt about New START to Putin in the hour-long call.



New START gives both countries until February 2018 to reduce their deployed strategic nuclear warheads to no more than 1,550, the lowest level in decades. It also limits deployed land- and submarine-based missiles and nuclear-capable bombers.


During a debate in the 2016 presidential election, Trump said Russia had “outsmarted” the United States with the treaty, which he called “START-Up.” He asserted incorrectly then that it had allowed Russia to continue to produce nuclear warheads while the United States could not.

Two Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, senators Jeanne Shaheen and Edward J. Markey, criticized Trump for deriding what they called a key nuclear arms control accord.


“It’s impossible to overstate the negligence of the president of the United States not knowing basic facts about nuclear policy and arms control,” Shaheen said in a statement. “New START has unquestionably made our country safer, an opinion widely shared by national security experts on both sides of the aisle.”


Daryl Kimball, the executive director of the Arms Control Association, a Washington-based advocacy group, said: “Unfortunately, Mr. Trump appears to be clueless about the value of this key nuclear risk reduction treaty and the unique dangers of nuclear weapons.”


Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he supported the treaty during his Senate confirmation hearings.
During the hearings Tillerson said it was important for the United States to “stay engaged with Russia, hold them accountable to commitments made under the New START and also ensure our accountability as well.”
Two of the people who described the conversation were briefed by current administration officials who read detailed notes taken during the call. One of the two was shown portions of the notes. A third source was also briefed on the call.


Reuters has not reviewed the notes taken of the call, which are classified.
The Kremlin did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

CONCERNS OVER PHONE CALLS


The phone call with Putin has added to concerns that Trump is not adequately prepared for discussions with foreign leaders.
Typically, before a telephone call with a foreign leader, a president receives a written in-depth briefing paper drafted by National Security Council staff after consultations with the relevant agencies, including the State Department, Pentagon and intelligence agencies, two former senior officials said.


Just before the call, the president also usually receives an oral “pre-briefing” from his national security adviser and top subject-matter aide, they said.
Trump did not receive a briefing from Russia experts with the NSC and intelligence agencies before the Putin call, two of the sources said. Reuters was unable to determine if Trump received a briefing from his national security adviser Michael Flynn.



In the phone call, the Russian leader raised the possibility of reviving talks on a range of disputes and suggested extending New START, the sources said.
New START can be extended for another five years, beyond 2021, by mutual agreement. Unless they agree to do that or negotiate new cuts, the world’s two biggest nuclear powers would be freed from the treaty’s limits, potentially setting the stage for a new arms race.

New START was ratified by the U.S. Senate in December 2010 by a vote of 71 to 26. Thirteen Republican senators joined all of the Senate’s Democrats in voting for the treaty, although Republican opponents derided it as naive.

The call with Putin was one of several with foreign leaders where Trump has turned to denounce deals negotiated by previous administrations on trade, acceptance of refugees and arms control.


In a phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Trump questioned an agreement reached by the Obama administration to accept 1,250 refugees now being held by Australia in offshore detention centers.





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