Most Americans don't really give a damn about the education of their children. If they did they wouldn't tolerate the dumbing down of the public schools. They wouldn't tolerate the closing of neighborhood schools in the urban areas and the underfunding of the impoverished school districts. They wouldn't tolerate true education being sacrificed by insane achievement testing that only measures the obvious....the richer the school district the better the education. In truth, the testing requirements are a ploy to destroy teacher unions and privatize schools with lower wage and benefit packages. The truly insane part of the testing in Colorado is extra reward funding goes to the schools with the higher test scores. In other words the richer schools get extra money while the poorer districts already struggling don't get the needed help to educate their children in modern school buildings with the needed equipment and materials to keep pace.
But we must also condemn the way most educators educate. Every child, every human is unique in the way they learn. Some learn through the imposed verbal presentation of material most public and private schools use as their primary form or education. But many children learn from experiential ways of learning. They learn by doing things themselves. So how does this translate to writing a paper or doing math? Educators need to figure it out.
The truth about American education is it's about regimentation and being non-questioning of authority. It's about conformity. I vividly remember starting every day pledging my allegiance to the flag. I remember being punished as a very young student for "doodling" while a teacher droned on about a subject I couldn't find interest in learning about. My sons were exposed to the same conditions. One son during his first grade was punished for rocking his chair and figdeting. I asked the teacher when she called me if she'd ever studied the growth and development of children at the first grade age. Young boys and girls want to be active. Asking them to sit through hour after hour of classes is confining and numbing.
Asking children to take test after test that measure only rote memorization is a sham. Where are the tests that measure abstract thinking? Where are tests that measure creativity. Art and music have been phased out in many districts as being irrelevant. Is it testing that takes their places?
The truth about the educational system seldom comes up in discussion. We pay starting teachers less than cost of living salaries and think they'll somehow be motivated to become great teachers. We pay experienced teachers less than they can make in other fields. And yet we claim we care about education of our children.
The truth about the evangelical, Tea Party, right wing politicians is they want to impose their agenda on all children. They want their values, and only their values taught to children from kindergarten to graduation. Education to them is indocrination to their system of oligarchy where children are the future wage slaves to their economic model of the rich getting richer and the rest of the population staying under control and fearful of resisting and rebelling.
Wednesday, April 15
Tuesday, April 7
Bastards of War
The masters of war never give up. Even the thought of diplomacy or negotiation with a designated "enemy" fails to stop their bloodlust. AIPAC, the Republican congress, the Israeli prime minister and all the other followers of the war cabal could never accept talks with a nation like Iran. Every week it seems the consumate war purveyor, John McCain, has a pulpit on the Sunday national talk shows of main stream media.
Why is the media so enthralled with John McCain? Simple. He's a "war hero" who spent time in a POW camp in North Vietnam after he deliberately went off mission on a bombing run over Hanoi and was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. No one can question the torture or pain of his time as a prisoner of war. But, do we have to pander to his foolish and misguided view of the world that dicatates constant warfare? Apparently many of us think we do and the corporate masters make sure we constantly hear his destructive messages.
Then there's the Zionist, Benjamin Netanyahu. A blustering relic of times past that has revealed his racist nature time and again. He's never met a Palestinian he didn't hate it seems. Or maybe it's just "Arabs" in general as was seen in his recent re-election that included him crying out in the press the Arabs were trying to steal the election. He never bothered to mention the Arabs in question were legitimate citizens of Israel entitled to vote along side the non-Arab population. But the racist message seemed to work.
And Netanyahu has demonstrated his contempt for the black President time and again with numerous attempts to sabotage any possibility of peace talks with any Arab or Islamic nation or faction. Why have peace when an American financed military, including nuclear weapons, can be used to eradicate the indigenous people of the region that is now called Israel? This has been the plan since the time of Ben Gurion in the early part of the 20th Century.
To question Israel's Zionist government always brings out the cries of "anti-semitism". We cannot question Israel in this nation without that outcry. Having a family history that includes my grandfather being forced out of Russia during the pogroms, I don't have a problem separating Judaism from Zionism. And there are millions in Israel that would concur but their voices will never be heard as long as the old guard Zionist governments continue. As long as the mainstream media fails to provide a balanced viewpoint of our world.
It saddens many of us to see the ghettos created by the Israeli government. They are strikingly similar to those created by the Nazis in Warsaw and throughout Europe during the lead up to and throughout World War II. I hesitate to make that analogy because it seems so vile but the reality of the West Bank and the lives of the Palestinians makes a compelling argument.
The bigger picture, however, is what and who is behind the constant hatred and violence. We can't believe the fanatics aligning themselves with the Muslim faith were created in a vacuum. The imposition of constant poverty, constant wars of imperialism that often took on the appearance of crusades by alleged Christian nations and the obvious plundering of natural resources by the rich oil barons surely has some role in creating these hate groups.
A century or more of occupation and colonial governments by the alleged Christian nations cannot be denied or overlooked as a source of hatred and discontent.
The Zionists constantly rant about "never again" but impose the very conditions they claim they don't want to occur again. And, they're forgetting their own history of being victimized, hated and killed for simply being who they are. Their repeat of such atrocities toward groups like Palestinians foments the fanatic backlash of suicide bombers and terrorist attacks around the world targeting them and their friends.
Using the creed of "an eye for an eye", or as Moshe Dayan once remarked there would be ten enemy killed for every Israeli killed, is a recipe for perpetual war.
For every action there will be a reaction and it all plays into the favor of the masters of war who reap the profits of humans killing humans in the sale of more and more destructive weapons and all that it entails in supplying armies of young cannon fodder.
When it comes to war the masters do not discriminate. They will sell to all sides to continue their profits. They simply see the individual warrior as a chess piece in the game of war which brings them huge profits.
Some might say this view is a twisted one. They actually believe the generals and politcians are running things. And that's what the masters of war in the military-industrial complex want us to believe. They hide in plain sight going about their destructive ways. They are the shadow government that owns the elected government by using their immense wealth to influence every election. They own the courts that have allowed them to throw even more money into buying the elections.
Their is a myth the American government has the interests of the citizens of this nation as the primary focus of their duties as elected officials. The not so hidden truth is their first priority is pleasing the masters who paid for their elections and will pay for their defeat should they not do as they demand.
The grand scheme in the modern "information age" has been to blitz the people with so many lies that the lies become the truth in the majority of the people's minds. Looking back to the Nazis we can find the seeds of this plan in the propaganda of Himmler and Goebels.
The grand scheme is to feign a desire to educate the people but actually create mindless followers of the masters' plan. The "dumbing down" of the American child has been under way for years. College freshmen more and more need remedial classes in writing, math and science in order to take prerequisite classes leading to a degree. The American educational system has fallen off a cliff. The American system trails far behind the top educational systems of the world in all areas.
But this is the plan. Keeping us consuming and stupid allows the masters of war to carry out the senseless wars with the majority of the people quite willing to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the spirit of patriotism. The majority of the population will cheer and wave flags as the preparation for one more war begins. They'll decorate their cars and homes with yellow ribbons and red, white and blue bunting to show their approval.
The other great tool of the masters is FEAR. They skillfully manipulate the media to present the world as a place to be afraid. There is always a threat to the "homeland". There are always demons who hate us because we are "free". And it goes back to the imposition of violence, poverty and occupation in far away lands perpetuated by the masters of war. Iraq in 2003 is a perfect example of how they took a nation that had an American imposed dictator in charge. But at least the people of Iraq lived without sectarian violence and hatred so evident today. Sunni married Shiite and lived in the same neighborhoods with each other.
Enter the masters of war under the guise of the American President, George Bush. The disruptions of economy and infrastructure, the devastation of "shock and awe" killing families, killing children and the imposition of an overseer like Paul Bremer led to the total disruption of the Iraqi society. Anarchy prevailed. Sectarian hatred and violence was promoted by the American handling of the occupation that came after the bombing and cruise missile attacks.
It was a familar strategy. The Phoenix Program used in Vietnam was the model the masters of war followed. Create division and chaos that leads to violence and hatred among the occupied people. The hatred for the occupiers was a secondary gain that kept the American fear going. You kill a family's children, you create an insurgent or terrorist.
The masters will exploit every facet of poverty and the resulting violence to subdue the masses. They want total power and use their military and militarized police forces to enforce their power. Occupy movements, peace movements and free speech movements are bullied, infiltrated and destroyed if at all possible. Trying to globalize or nationalize protest is made nearly impossible.
My thoughts are my own but over 6 decades on the planet I've seen the patterns repeat themselves so many times I'm convinced there are no coincidences. We are at the mercy of the bastards of war. And failing to resist is failing our children and the future generations that follow us.
Why is the media so enthralled with John McCain? Simple. He's a "war hero" who spent time in a POW camp in North Vietnam after he deliberately went off mission on a bombing run over Hanoi and was shot down by anti-aircraft fire. No one can question the torture or pain of his time as a prisoner of war. But, do we have to pander to his foolish and misguided view of the world that dicatates constant warfare? Apparently many of us think we do and the corporate masters make sure we constantly hear his destructive messages.
Then there's the Zionist, Benjamin Netanyahu. A blustering relic of times past that has revealed his racist nature time and again. He's never met a Palestinian he didn't hate it seems. Or maybe it's just "Arabs" in general as was seen in his recent re-election that included him crying out in the press the Arabs were trying to steal the election. He never bothered to mention the Arabs in question were legitimate citizens of Israel entitled to vote along side the non-Arab population. But the racist message seemed to work.
And Netanyahu has demonstrated his contempt for the black President time and again with numerous attempts to sabotage any possibility of peace talks with any Arab or Islamic nation or faction. Why have peace when an American financed military, including nuclear weapons, can be used to eradicate the indigenous people of the region that is now called Israel? This has been the plan since the time of Ben Gurion in the early part of the 20th Century.
To question Israel's Zionist government always brings out the cries of "anti-semitism". We cannot question Israel in this nation without that outcry. Having a family history that includes my grandfather being forced out of Russia during the pogroms, I don't have a problem separating Judaism from Zionism. And there are millions in Israel that would concur but their voices will never be heard as long as the old guard Zionist governments continue. As long as the mainstream media fails to provide a balanced viewpoint of our world.
It saddens many of us to see the ghettos created by the Israeli government. They are strikingly similar to those created by the Nazis in Warsaw and throughout Europe during the lead up to and throughout World War II. I hesitate to make that analogy because it seems so vile but the reality of the West Bank and the lives of the Palestinians makes a compelling argument.
The bigger picture, however, is what and who is behind the constant hatred and violence. We can't believe the fanatics aligning themselves with the Muslim faith were created in a vacuum. The imposition of constant poverty, constant wars of imperialism that often took on the appearance of crusades by alleged Christian nations and the obvious plundering of natural resources by the rich oil barons surely has some role in creating these hate groups.
A century or more of occupation and colonial governments by the alleged Christian nations cannot be denied or overlooked as a source of hatred and discontent.
The Zionists constantly rant about "never again" but impose the very conditions they claim they don't want to occur again. And, they're forgetting their own history of being victimized, hated and killed for simply being who they are. Their repeat of such atrocities toward groups like Palestinians foments the fanatic backlash of suicide bombers and terrorist attacks around the world targeting them and their friends.
Using the creed of "an eye for an eye", or as Moshe Dayan once remarked there would be ten enemy killed for every Israeli killed, is a recipe for perpetual war.
For every action there will be a reaction and it all plays into the favor of the masters of war who reap the profits of humans killing humans in the sale of more and more destructive weapons and all that it entails in supplying armies of young cannon fodder.
When it comes to war the masters do not discriminate. They will sell to all sides to continue their profits. They simply see the individual warrior as a chess piece in the game of war which brings them huge profits.
Some might say this view is a twisted one. They actually believe the generals and politcians are running things. And that's what the masters of war in the military-industrial complex want us to believe. They hide in plain sight going about their destructive ways. They are the shadow government that owns the elected government by using their immense wealth to influence every election. They own the courts that have allowed them to throw even more money into buying the elections.
Their is a myth the American government has the interests of the citizens of this nation as the primary focus of their duties as elected officials. The not so hidden truth is their first priority is pleasing the masters who paid for their elections and will pay for their defeat should they not do as they demand.
The grand scheme in the modern "information age" has been to blitz the people with so many lies that the lies become the truth in the majority of the people's minds. Looking back to the Nazis we can find the seeds of this plan in the propaganda of Himmler and Goebels.
The grand scheme is to feign a desire to educate the people but actually create mindless followers of the masters' plan. The "dumbing down" of the American child has been under way for years. College freshmen more and more need remedial classes in writing, math and science in order to take prerequisite classes leading to a degree. The American educational system has fallen off a cliff. The American system trails far behind the top educational systems of the world in all areas.
But this is the plan. Keeping us consuming and stupid allows the masters of war to carry out the senseless wars with the majority of the people quite willing to sacrifice their sons and daughters in the spirit of patriotism. The majority of the population will cheer and wave flags as the preparation for one more war begins. They'll decorate their cars and homes with yellow ribbons and red, white and blue bunting to show their approval.
The other great tool of the masters is FEAR. They skillfully manipulate the media to present the world as a place to be afraid. There is always a threat to the "homeland". There are always demons who hate us because we are "free". And it goes back to the imposition of violence, poverty and occupation in far away lands perpetuated by the masters of war. Iraq in 2003 is a perfect example of how they took a nation that had an American imposed dictator in charge. But at least the people of Iraq lived without sectarian violence and hatred so evident today. Sunni married Shiite and lived in the same neighborhoods with each other.
Enter the masters of war under the guise of the American President, George Bush. The disruptions of economy and infrastructure, the devastation of "shock and awe" killing families, killing children and the imposition of an overseer like Paul Bremer led to the total disruption of the Iraqi society. Anarchy prevailed. Sectarian hatred and violence was promoted by the American handling of the occupation that came after the bombing and cruise missile attacks.
It was a familar strategy. The Phoenix Program used in Vietnam was the model the masters of war followed. Create division and chaos that leads to violence and hatred among the occupied people. The hatred for the occupiers was a secondary gain that kept the American fear going. You kill a family's children, you create an insurgent or terrorist.
The masters will exploit every facet of poverty and the resulting violence to subdue the masses. They want total power and use their military and militarized police forces to enforce their power. Occupy movements, peace movements and free speech movements are bullied, infiltrated and destroyed if at all possible. Trying to globalize or nationalize protest is made nearly impossible.
My thoughts are my own but over 6 decades on the planet I've seen the patterns repeat themselves so many times I'm convinced there are no coincidences. We are at the mercy of the bastards of war. And failing to resist is failing our children and the future generations that follow us.
Saturday, April 4
The Hate of Coulter's Christ
Ann Coulter is quoted saying "the left" hates Christianity. She's right if she's referring to her brand of Christianity.
Coulter's Christ is a purveyor of wars immoral, a elitist oligarch that cares little or nothing about the poor and beleaguered and a hater of anybody that refuses to toe the line of the oligarchy's fanaticism. The Christ she and those she represents is not the prophet that walked with the poor, the radical who included whores and tax collectors and the person who spoke of loving one another as we would ourselves.
The bastardized version of Christianity preaching hate and vile racism, homophobia, sexism and disregard for all but the rich can only be hated by the true believers of what Jesus actually taught in his time on Earth. This form of Christianity is in actuality a fascist attempt by the elite to control the masses of people they want to exploit. They use Christianity as a sledge hammer to dictate behaviors they want to enslave the masses into becoming wage slaves and mindless consumers.
The use of Christianity for the wars of justice and freedom are no more legitimate than the fake Muslims calling for jihads against the infidels. Neither group cares about the truth or the intent of the religion they profess to represent. They care only about power and influence. These are the new Gestapo and Huns attempting to gain world domination and control of us "minions".
So, yeah, Ann, my left wing friends do hate your Christianity. Just as much as we hate all those who try to inflict injustice and bigotry on the world around them. Your provocative statements may get you another book deal, Ann, but it can't hide the hateful person you really are.
Coulter's Christ is a purveyor of wars immoral, a elitist oligarch that cares little or nothing about the poor and beleaguered and a hater of anybody that refuses to toe the line of the oligarchy's fanaticism. The Christ she and those she represents is not the prophet that walked with the poor, the radical who included whores and tax collectors and the person who spoke of loving one another as we would ourselves.
The bastardized version of Christianity preaching hate and vile racism, homophobia, sexism and disregard for all but the rich can only be hated by the true believers of what Jesus actually taught in his time on Earth. This form of Christianity is in actuality a fascist attempt by the elite to control the masses of people they want to exploit. They use Christianity as a sledge hammer to dictate behaviors they want to enslave the masses into becoming wage slaves and mindless consumers.
The use of Christianity for the wars of justice and freedom are no more legitimate than the fake Muslims calling for jihads against the infidels. Neither group cares about the truth or the intent of the religion they profess to represent. They care only about power and influence. These are the new Gestapo and Huns attempting to gain world domination and control of us "minions".
So, yeah, Ann, my left wing friends do hate your Christianity. Just as much as we hate all those who try to inflict injustice and bigotry on the world around them. Your provocative statements may get you another book deal, Ann, but it can't hide the hateful person you really are.
Cindy Sheehan, Loving Mother, Heroine
Mixed emotions about this day. Today Cindy Sheehan mourns the death of her son, Casey, eleven years ago. Cindy took her grief, her anger and depression and decided she wasn't going to just be the "good" mother of a "hero". Instead she resuscitated the American peace movement by going to George W. Bush's summer retreat in Crawford, Texas to demand he explain the death of Casey and so many others for an illegal and immoral war. Veterans and activists all over the nation heard her message and joined her. Cindy never turned back from her activism. She had herself arrested countless times in civil disobedience against a government that has perpetually kept us at war and disregarded the lives of those they send to be slaughtered. Or to slaughter others.
Cindy Sheehan has honored Casey and all us veterans who went to foreign lands thinking we were patriotic but discovering we were duped and mere pawns of a rogue nation stolen from the people by the rich oligarchs. She has never gotten her answer from Bush or any other President.
But today is that terrible day that has come around eleven consecutive years now. And will come around for as long as Cindy lives. Today is the day a mother grieves for a child taken from this life in the beginning of his life. Today is the day a mom remembers the notification and all the other details of the horror she prayed and dreaded would never occur. The day her son became forever young.
Cindy is not alone in her experience. There's memorials, walls and statues all over Washington D.C. making it clear we are a nation that sacrifices its young for the racketeers and gangsters of the military-industrial complex.
No, Cindy is merely a personification of every parent who has had a son or daughter in one of those wars and dreaded seeing a stranger approaching their homes. She's an elegant example of a parent who loved her child and refused to go softly into the night when he was taken from her by a senseless war. She's every child's mother that sees through the lies and corruption of the masters of war.
I can only imagine how she feels today. I know I feel grief for her loss and never met Casey. I can only think of my two sons and how I would feel if I lost one of them in such a way. I truly hope Cindy can find some comfort today from all those who are thinking of her, care for her and send their love her way. And think of all the other moms and dads who suffer silently for the same reason.
Will we truly find the cost of freedom buried in the ground? Or in the faces of parents like Cindy?
Blessings to you on this day of sadness, Cindy.
Cindy Sheehan has honored Casey and all us veterans who went to foreign lands thinking we were patriotic but discovering we were duped and mere pawns of a rogue nation stolen from the people by the rich oligarchs. She has never gotten her answer from Bush or any other President.
But today is that terrible day that has come around eleven consecutive years now. And will come around for as long as Cindy lives. Today is the day a mother grieves for a child taken from this life in the beginning of his life. Today is the day a mom remembers the notification and all the other details of the horror she prayed and dreaded would never occur. The day her son became forever young.
Cindy is not alone in her experience. There's memorials, walls and statues all over Washington D.C. making it clear we are a nation that sacrifices its young for the racketeers and gangsters of the military-industrial complex.
No, Cindy is merely a personification of every parent who has had a son or daughter in one of those wars and dreaded seeing a stranger approaching their homes. She's an elegant example of a parent who loved her child and refused to go softly into the night when he was taken from her by a senseless war. She's every child's mother that sees through the lies and corruption of the masters of war.
I can only imagine how she feels today. I know I feel grief for her loss and never met Casey. I can only think of my two sons and how I would feel if I lost one of them in such a way. I truly hope Cindy can find some comfort today from all those who are thinking of her, care for her and send their love her way. And think of all the other moms and dads who suffer silently for the same reason.
Will we truly find the cost of freedom buried in the ground? Or in the faces of parents like Cindy?
Blessings to you on this day of sadness, Cindy.
Tuesday, January 27
Why Care
Ah, my blog!
Been a long time since I've entered anything. Seems social media has taken the place I once had for blogging. Does anyone still blog?
The world has changed very little since last time. The politicians remain the bought off whores of the Koch brother types. The rich get richer while the middle class is rapidly becoming a myth. The poor are chastised and cast out for being a drag on the "system". The heartless, vacuous "system" where success is measured by the accumulation of wealth and material things. Starving families, homeless humans, never-ending war, slaughters around the world, school shootings and police brutality all flourish in this "system". We seem to have a "systemic plague". A plague of disparity of wealth. A plague of the rich being able to ignore the incredible wasteland they leave in their paths to accumulating more and more.
Polarization of ideas and ideologies keep the people from acting against the true villains. Main stream media is the tool of the rich and powerful to subdue the masses. We have become narcotized and desensitized to the reality of life's horrors. Created by those we allow power.
But, no one seems to care. Why should I? Why should you?
Been a long time since I've entered anything. Seems social media has taken the place I once had for blogging. Does anyone still blog?
The world has changed very little since last time. The politicians remain the bought off whores of the Koch brother types. The rich get richer while the middle class is rapidly becoming a myth. The poor are chastised and cast out for being a drag on the "system". The heartless, vacuous "system" where success is measured by the accumulation of wealth and material things. Starving families, homeless humans, never-ending war, slaughters around the world, school shootings and police brutality all flourish in this "system". We seem to have a "systemic plague". A plague of disparity of wealth. A plague of the rich being able to ignore the incredible wasteland they leave in their paths to accumulating more and more.
Polarization of ideas and ideologies keep the people from acting against the true villains. Main stream media is the tool of the rich and powerful to subdue the masses. We have become narcotized and desensitized to the reality of life's horrors. Created by those we allow power.
But, no one seems to care. Why should I? Why should you?
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