Monday, May 27, 2013

Seattle Police Deploy Crime Prediction Software City-Wide: herein~lies~the~rub~people ~ SOFTWARE DOES NOT TRUMP THE UNITED STATES NOR WASHINGTON STATE CONSTITUTIONS

NO DUE PROCESS LAW, MINORITY REPORT
Justice Barbara Madsen

Chief Justice

Barbara Rupnick Madsen

WA STATE Supreme Court ~long-standing support ~access to justice

http://www.predpol.com/blog/  After initial testing in two precincts, The Seattle Police Department and Mayor Mike McGinn announced last week that they will now deploy their “Predictive Policing” software to all five precincts.

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Seattle Police Deploy Crime Prediction Software City-Wide

  The federally-funded cloud-based crime prediction software known as PREDPOL, uses mathematical algorithms similar to ones used in earthquake prediction to predict when and where a future crime is most likely to take place down to a 500-square foot area. The program combines five years’ worth of past crime data with sociological information about criminal behavior.

http://www.secretsofthefed.com/seattle-police-deploy-crime-prediction-software-city-wide/ 

“We’ve had anecdotal successes with the pilot project in East and Southwest Precincts, so we’re expanding Predictive Policing citywide,” said Mayor McGinn .. “We’re asking the community to get involved by reporting even minor property crimes so we can improve our data set and predict where crime is likely to occur .. This is a tool that can help us prevent some crimes before they happen, so it’s very important that community members get involved" .. Despite the assurance that the program doesn’t target individuals, civil liberties advocates have already questioned the software and the possible dangers to privacy and constitutional rights down the road. Some worry the Police may target citizens who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, simply based off of what a computer tells them .. Given the City of Seattle’s involvement in the secret pilot program TrapWire, a surveilance camera program that ran citizens faces through facial recognition software unknowingly, Seattle residents are hesitant to trust the program or the Seattle Police who were recently under federal investigation for their routine and widespread use of excessive force .. Even with some hesitant citizens, the Seattle police are asking local residents to report any and every crime to help build up the department’s crime prediction database .. “With the community’s help, we can prevent some crimes before they take place by being in the right place at the right time,” said Deputy Chief Metz .. Seattle also received a $5 million federal grant last year which went towards 30 Department of Homeland Security-funded surveillance cameras on Seattle’s waterfront area. Despite the claim that the cameras were for the coast line to protect the Port of Seattle from terrorism, the cameras were caught pointing inward, watching Seattle residents by “accident” ~~ 

http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-washington-state-supreme-court.html Washington Residents Force Seattle To Scrap Police Drones ~ Glimmer of Hope: Washington Residents Force Seattle To Scrap Police Drones ! February 10, 2013 By 21wire, Seattle joined by Charlottesville, Va. in rejecting federal and DHS local drone roll-out, Pat_LBPatrick Henningsen, 21st Century Wire ~~


>>http://21stcenturywire.com/2013/02/10/glimmer-of-hope-washington-residents-force-seattle-to-scrap-police-drones/

 

Robert M. McKenna

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Dear Former Attorney General Robert M. McKenna, and Governor of Washington State Candidate, 2012 ... see UPDATE PDF, to follow ....




>>go~to~link>>mathematical algorithms destroying global economy TOO ~~ie global financial system and it is ... due to .. NO DUE PROCESS LAW

The Network of Global Corporate Control: TRANSNATIONALS [Corporations] form a giant bow-tie structure, a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions ~ core economic “super-entity”

Thus, similar to the WWW, the TNC network has a bow-tie structure [21] (see Figure 2 A and Appendix S1, Section 6). Its peculiarity is that the strongly connected component, or core, is very small compared to the other sections of the bow-tie, and that the out-section is significantly larger than the in-section and the tubes and tendrils (Figure 2 B and Table 1). The core is also very densely connected, with members having, on average, ties to 20 other members (Figure 2 C, D). As a result, about 3/4 of the ownership of firms in the core remains in the hands of firms of the core itself. In other words, this is a tightly-knit group of corporations that cumulatively hold the majority share of each other.

 

Introduction


A common intuition among scholars and in the media sees the global economy as being dominated by a handful of powerful transnational corporations (TNCs). However, this has not been confirmed or rejected with explicit numbers. A quantitative investigation is not a trivial task because firms may exert control over other firms via a web of direct and indirect ownership relations which extends over many countries. Therefore, a complex network analysis [1] is needed in order to uncover the structure of control and its implications. Recently, economic networks have attracted growing attention [2], e.g., networks of trade [3], products [4], credit [5], [6], stock prices [7] and boards of directors [8], [9]. This literature has also analyzed ownership networks [10], [11], but has neglected the structure of control at a global level. Even the corporate governance literature has only studied small national business groups [12]. Certainly, it is intuitive that every large corporation has a pyramid of subsidiaries below and a number of shareholders above. However, economic theory does not offer models that predict how TNCs globally connect to each other. Three alternative hypotheses can be formulated. TNCs may remain isolated, cluster in separated coalitions, or form a giant connected component, possibly with a core-periphery structure. So far, this issue has remained unaddressed, notwithstanding its important implications for policy making. Indeed, mutual ownership relations among firms within the same sector can, in some cases, jeopardize market competition [13], [14]. Moreover, linkages among financial institutions have been recognized to have ambiguous effects on their financial fragility [15], [16]. Verifying to what extent these implications hold true in the global economy is per se an unexplored field of research and is beyond the scope of this article. However, a necessary precondition to such investigations is to uncover the worldwide structure of corporate control. This was never performed before and it is the aim of the present work.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0025995#s3 



When, thanks to Mark Novitsky, a federal whistleblower, I learned that Karen Hudes, who earned her J.D. at Yale, our most distinguished School of Law, and an M.Phil. in economics at the University of Amsterdam, which is also a formidable institution, had been removed from her position as Senior Counsel for the World Bank because of her efforts to expose corruption and reaffirm the rule of law in the form of appropriate standards of accounting, I was dumbfounded. What initially appear to be obscure issues of international finance, moreover, have the potential to sever ties between us and our NATO allies and weaken the national security of the United States. The stakes involved are therefore extremely high for every American citizen.

http://hebrewvisionnews.info/?p=1466

 

World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve

A former insider at the World Bank, ex-Senior Counsel Karen Hudes, says the global financial system is dominated by a small group of corrupt, power-hungry figures centered around the privately owned U.S. Federal Reserve.

The network has seized control of the media to cover up its crimes, too, she explained. In an interview with The New American, Hudes said that when she tried to blow the whistle on multiple problems at the World Bank, she was fired for her efforts. Now, along with a network of fellow whistleblowers, Hudes is determined to expose and end the corruption. And she is confident of success.  

Citing an explosive 2011 Swiss study published in the PLOS ONE journal on the “network of global corporate control,” Hudes pointed out that a small group of entities — mostly financial institutions and especially central banks — exert a massive amount of influence over the international economy from behind the scenes. “What is really going on is that the world’s resources are being dominated by this group,” she explained, adding that the “corrupt power grabbers” have managed to dominate the media as well. “They’re being allowed to do it.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/world-bank-insider-blows-whistle-on-corruption-federal-reserve/5336492

Sunday, May 26, 2013

VANGUARD versus PROLETARIAT: WHAT DO THE VANGUARD USA ALL SHARE IN 'COMMON' INTEREST(S)?

-NYSE
104.83 Down 0.16(0.15%) May 24, 4:03PM EDT|After Hours : 104.73 Down 0.10 (0.10%) May 24, 4:54PM EDT
Major Holders

 Dow Up 0.06% Nasdaq Down 0.01%

 


Breakdown
% of Shares Held by All Insider and 5% Owners:0%
% of Shares Held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners:86%
% of Float Held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners:86%
Number of Institutions Holding Shares:967

Major Direct Holders (Forms 3 & 4)
HolderSharesReported
GRANT HUGH420,882Apr 9, 2013
PARFET WILLIAM U319,244Apr 25, 2013
BEGEMANN BRETT D97,580Apr 7, 2013
FRALEY ROBERT T91,212Apr 8, 2013
STEVENS ROBERT J60,431Apr 25, 2013


Top Institutional Holders
HolderShares% OutValue*Reported
FMR, LLC34,024,4166.373,593,999,062Mar 31, 2013
Vanguard Group, Inc. (The)28,477,7205.333,008,101,563Mar 31, 2013
State Street Corporation23,231,8084.352,453,975,879Mar 31, 2013
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.15,345,9162.871,620,989,107Mar 31, 2013
Jennison Associates LLC13,555,9532.541,431,915,315Mar 31, 2013
Primecap Management Company12,010,7672.251,268,697,318Mar 31, 2013
Davis Selected Advisers, LP9,200,0941.72971,805,929Mar 31, 2013
Winslow Capital Management9,188,9091.72970,624,457Mar 31, 2013
Northern Trust Corporation8,976,1931.68948,155,266Mar 31, 2013
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation7,759,2451.45819,609,049Mar 31, 2013

Top Mutual Fund Holders
HolderShares% OutValue*Reported
Fidelity Growth Company Fund7,319,9781.37773,209,276Mar 31, 2013
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund7,129,3301.34674,791,084Dec 31, 2012
Vanguard/Primecap Fund5,912,4601.11559,614,339Dec 31, 2012
Davis New York Venture Fund5,558,9961.04563,404,244Jan 31, 2013
Fidelity Contrafund Inc5,527,8471.04583,906,478Mar 31, 2013
Mainstay Large Cap Growth Fund5,194,2220.97548,665,669Mar 31, 2013
Vanguard Institutional Index Fund-Institutional Index Fund5,036,5450.94532,010,248Mar 31, 2013
Vanguard 500 Index Fund4,964,3570.93469,876,390Dec 31, 2012
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust4,892,3870.92522,604,779Apr 30, 2013
Market Vectors ETF Tr-Agribusiness ETF4,372,1530.82461,830,521Mar 31, 2013

Value shown is computed using the security's price on the report date given.
Currency in USD.




PERHAPS VANGUARD USA DOES NOT CONSIDER THE FACT(S):

1.  APARTHEID IS TO EXPLOIT; and,

2.  GENOCIDE IS TO SET-UP CENTERS SUCH AS, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY [DHS] AS A NEW IDEOLOGY FASHIONED AFTER THE WELL PRACTICED NOW, VANGUARD UMBRELLA(S)

WE THE PEOPLE CHOOSE OUR REALITY AS OUR ELEMENTS, ALL, NON-APARTHEID AND NON-GENOCIDE ~ PLEASE, THE 'VANGUARD' AND ITS' 'INVESTORS'' MUST GET CLEAN, AND IN THE COMPLETE TRANSPARENCY OF 21CENTURY USA

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http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/dark-history-monsanto/

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http://farmwars.info/?p=3613

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/tabun/basics/pdf/tabun-facts.pdf


Tabun
Nerve agent
Tabun or GA is an extremely toxic chemical substance. It is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid with a faint fruity odor. It is classified as a nerve agent because it fatally interferes with normal functioning of the mammalian nervous system. Wikipedia
Density: 1.09 g/cm³


http://insomniacs2.wordpress.com/tag/edgar-monsanto-queeny/

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25949-The-real-truth-about-monsanto

http://bestmeal.info/monsanto/company-history.shtml





Bilderberg 2013 ~ The Grove Hotel, Hertfordshire, June 6th-9th

http://bilderberg2013.co.uk

The selective transparency of Neelie Kroes By admin
Business Background

Neelie Kroes is Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda. She has attended eight Bilderberg conferences to date, every year since 2005.


She joined the EU Commission in 2004. According to the BBC: “At the time, the former Dutch transport minister was on the board of 12 companies, including Volvo and the French defence group Thales. She had also worked as a lobbyist for Lockheed-Martin.”

Her official EU Biographical Sketch gives a long list of her previous business interests – which includes being on the Supervisory Board of McDonald’s, the Advisory Board of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and the Supervisory Board of New Skies Satellites.

Open Governing

The keyword in the speeches and writings of Commissioner Kroes is “open” – whether it’s “open data”, “open science”, “open education” or an “open internet”. In June 2010 she said:
“I think that openness is a core European value, and one of our strengths, and I do see it as contributing to our ability to innovate.”
She stresses both the economic and the social value of openness. She believes governments should be open with their data, and that an open government is one the people can trust. In a speech entitled ‘From Crisis of Trust to Open Governing’, delivered in March 2012, she says:
“Today’s economic crisis is a testing time for our democracies. Just look at the amount of protests in our streets across Europe. We need to bring back the trust in markets, in governments. Especially for young people who are massively left aside at the moment. One way to create trust is by increasing transparency in government. Citizens will be more confident if they can verify that the people they have elected inform them about what they do and how they do it.”
A transparent government is a trusted government. And, as an EU Commissioner, Neelie Kroes can say with some pride:
“the EU is fully committed to open government and data”.
In October 2012, Kroes explained how information can “empower citizens” and help people “hold their governments to account”. The more open the government, the more accountable it is. And the more accountable, the more trusted:
“We can change the relationship between governments and citizens. Putting public data online is a great example. It means more transparency in government.”
This is her ideal: more openness, more data, more transparency, more accountability. An ideal which she sees alive and well in Europe – as she said in March of this year:
“Europe is a home of democracy, transparency and fundamental rights”.
True Colours

European Commissioner Neelie Kroes has been to eight Bilderberg conferences, and hasn’t made a single public statement about these meetings. At the last gathering, in Chantilly, she spent three days – meeting in private – with two other European Commissioners (Joaquín Almunia and Karel de Gucht) along with the following elected public servants (showing their office at the time):
    Alison Redford (Canada: Premier of Alberta)
    Jürgen Trittin (Germany: Parliamentary Leader, Alliance 90/The Greens)
    Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (Spain: Vice President and Minister for the Presidency)
    Jutta Urpilainen (Finland: Minister of Finance
    Christophe Béchu (France: Senator, and Chairman, General Council of Maine-et-Loire)
    Nick Boles (Britain: Member of Parliament)
    Kenneth Clarke (Britain: Member of Parliament, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of Justice)
    Michael Noonan (Ireland: Minister for Finance)
    Enrico Letta (Italy: Deputy Leader, Democratic Party)
    Alexander Pechtold (Holland: Parliamentary Leader, Democrats ’66)
    Mark Rutte (Holland: Prime Minister)
    Jacek Rostowski (Poland: Minister of Finance)
    Jorge Moreira da Silva (Portugal: First Vice-President, Partido Social Democrata)
    Ali Babacan (Turkey: Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs)
    Mitchell Daniels, Jr. (US: Governor of Indiana)
    John Kerry (US: Senator for Massachusetts)
This private policy summit – heaving with corporate executives and packed with politicians – is the very opposite of “transparency in government”. Openness may be a “core European value” but when it comes to Bilderberg, it’s not a value that’s exhibited by Neelie Kroes.


Press Office and Reception Zone
At this year’s Bilderberg conference, for the first time, there will be a Press Office – hosted by the Bilderberg Welcoming Committee – located on the hotel grounds. The aim of the Press Office will be to facilitate the mainstream and alternative media in their coverage of the meeting.

The Press Office will be located in a larger Reception Zone, within the grounds of The Grove Hotel (near the hotel gates). It will provide journalists, photographers, bloggers and researchers with information on this year’s conference, and details about the delegates: including an ID service for delegate photographs.

Besides the Press Office, the Reception Zone will feature a place for speakers, lavatories, and a view of the hotel drive for photographers. Electricity will be available at the Press Office for recharging cameras and phones.

There will be liaison officers from the Hertfordshire Constabulary present in the Reception Zone for the duration of the conference.

The Bilderberg Welcoming Committee is a loose association of pro-transparency campaigners, journalists and organizations, who will be hosting the Press Office.

Press relations

This is the first officially sanctioned Press Office for the Bilderberg conference, and is a considerable step forward in the relations between the conference and the press.

The Bilderberg Group is famously shy of press attention. An article in the Daily Express, February 12, 1957 (a few years after the first official conference) shows how a veil of “secrecy and security” was drawn over the event:

expresscutting

But this attitude is finally changing, as the Chancellor George Osborne (Bilderberg attendee 2005-9, 2011) said, shortly after taking office: “We have already begun to implement the most radical transparency agenda the country has ever seen” (speech, June 8, 2010)



"The Codex, Fluoride, Auschwitz, Monsanto Connection" & DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY [DHS]:

Monsanto Company (American company) .. The Monsanto Chemical Works was founded in 1901 by John F. Queeny (1859–1933), a purchasing agent for a wholesale drug company, to manufacture the synthetic sweetener saccharin, then produced only in Germany .. named Monsanto, after wife’s maiden ...

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?25949-The-real-truth-about-monsanto
Monsanto Co. (MON)
Major Holders
% of Shares Held by All Insider and 5% Owners:
0%
% of Shares Held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners: 78%
% of Float Held by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners: 78%
Number of Institutions Holding Shares: 952
Major Direct Holders (Forms 3 &Amp; 4)

Holder Shares Reported
GRANT HUGH 448,545 Jul 13, 2010
PARFET WILLIAM U 415,276 Apr 30, 2010
CREWS TERRELL K 144,807 Aug 31, 2009
CASALE CARL M 102,932 Jul 13, 2010
FRALEY ROBERT T 97,334 Jan 11, 2010

Holder Shares % Out Value* Reported
VANGUARD GROUP, INC. (THE) 19,535,784 3.58 $1,395,245,693 Mar 31, 2010
STATE STREET CORPORATION 19,109,599 3.50 $1,364,807,560 Mar 31, 2010
PRIMECAP MANAGEMENT COMPANY 18,087,892 3.32 $1,291,837,246 Mar 31, 2010
Capital World Investors 17,360,645 3.18 $1,239,897,265 Mar 31, 2010

BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. 15,983,687 2.93 $1,141,554,925 Mar 31, 2010
PRICE (T.ROWE) ASSOCIATES INC 14,377,440 2.64 $1,026,836,764 Mar 31, 2010
FMR LLC 12,107,720 2.22 $864,733,362 Mar 31, 2010
MORGAN STANLEY 10,736,111 1.97 $766,773,047 Mar 31, 2010

Capital Research Global Investors 9,229,130 1.69 $659,144,464 Mar 31, 2010
NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION 6,596,342 1.21 $471,110,745 Mar 31, 2010
Top Mutual Fund Holders
Holder Shares % Out Value* Reported
VANGUARD/PRIMECAP FUND 7,391,460 1.35 $527,898,073 Mar 31, 2010
GROWTH FUND OF AMERICA INC 6,751,900 1.24
$482,220,698 Mar 31, 2010
AMERICAN BALANCED FUND 5,542,500 1.02 $395,845,350 Mar 31, 2010
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND 5,511,281 1.01 $393,615,689 Mar 31, 2010
VANGUARD 500 INDEX FUND 5,056,352 0.93 $361,124,659 Mar 31, 2010
VANGUARD HORIZON FUND-CAPITAL OPPORTUNITY PORTFOLIO 4,215,886 0.77 $301,098,578 Mar 31, 2010
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 3,978,616 0.73 $284,152,754 Mar 31, 2010
VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INDEX FUND-INSTITUTIONAL INDEX FD 3,797,051 0.70 $271,185,382 Mar 31, 2010
COLLEGE RETIREMENT EQUITIES FUND-STOCK ACCOUNT 3,439,680 0.63 $245,661,945 Mar 31, 2010
SELECT SECTOR SPDR FD-MATERIALS 2,903,890 0.53 $207,395,823 Mar 31, 2010

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1926: Environmental policy was generally governed by local governments, Monsanto Chemical Company founded and incorporated the town of Monsanto, later renamed Sauget, Illinois, to provide a more business friendly environment for one of its chemical plants. For years, the Monsanto plant in Sauget was the nation’s largest producer of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). And although polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were banned in the 1970s, they remain in the water along Dead Creek in Sauget. 

1929: Monsanto began production of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) in the United States. PCBs were considered an industrial wonder chemical – an oil that would not burn, was impervious to degradation and had almost limitless applications. Today PCBs are considered one of the gravest chemical threats on the planet. PCBs, widely used as lubricants, hydraulic fluids, cutting oils, waterproof coatings and liquid sealants, are potent carcinogens and have been implicated in reproductive, developmental and immune system disorders. The world’s center of PCB manufacturing was Monsanto’s plant on the outskirts of East St. Louis, Illinois, which has the highest rate of fetal death and immature births in the state.

Monsanto PiratesMonsanto produced PCBs for over 50 years and they are now virtually omnipresent in the blood and tissues of humans and wildlife around the globe – from the polar bears at the north pole to the penguins in Antarctica. These days PCBs are banned from production and some experts say there should be no acceptable level of PCBs allowed in the environment. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says, “PCB has been demonstrated to cause cancer, as well as a variety of other adverse health effects on the immune system, reproductive system, nervous system and endocrine system.” But the evidence of widespread contamination from PCBs and related chemicals has been accumulating from 1965 onwards and internal company papers show that Monsanto knew about the PCB dangers from early on.

The PCB problem was particularly severe in the town of Anniston in Alabama where discharges from the local Monsanto plant meant residents developed PCB levels hundreds or thousands of times the average. As The Washington Post reported, “for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents : many emblazoned with warnings such as ‘CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy’ : show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew.”

Ken Cook of the Environmental Working Group says that based on the Monsanto documents made public, Monsanto “knew the truth from the very beginning. They lied about it. They hid the truth from their neighbors.” One Monsanto memo explains their justification: “We can’t afford to lose one dollar of business.” Eventually Monsanto was found guilty of conduct “so outrageous in character and extreme in degree as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency so as to be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable in civilized society”...

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1938: Monsanto goes into the plastic business (the year after DuPont helped ban hemp because it was superior to their new NYLON product made from Rockefeller OIL). Monsanto became involved in plastics when it completely took over Fiberloid, one of the oldest nitrocellulose production companies, which had a 50% stake in Shawinigan Resins.

http://www.wollheim-memorial.de/en/was_sollte_fabrik_produzieren 

I.G. Auschwitz

I.G. Auschwitz, founded on April 7, 1942, in Kattowitz (Katowice), was slated to become the biggest chemical plant in Eastern Europe. The production facilities were planned so that they could produce synthetics in peacetime after their use for military production. At the construction site in Auschwitz, prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp were increasingly used as a workforce, in addition to German skilled professionals and forced laborers from all over Europe. In 1942, I.G. Auschwitz built the corporate concentration camp of Buna/Monowitz.
 
.. to be continued ...


Saturday, May 25, 2013

CONSUMER ED: Brave New Schools ~ EDUCATION NEWS

Brave New Schools

shutterstock_51325603_pop_20652Cherie Zaslawsky – The much touted Common Core Standards (CCS) Initiative that is being pushed as a silver bullet to improve our schools is not simply the latest fad in education: CCS is actually an unprecedented program that would radically alter our entire K-12 educational system, affecting content (i.e. curriculum), delivery (largely via computer), testing (also via computer), teacher evaluations (connected to test scores), as well as creating an intrusive database of sensitive information from student “assessments.” This program, for all the protestations to the contrary, represents the nationalization of education in America, extinguishing any semblance of local control.

Furthermore, it was essentially developed at the behest of billionaire Bill Gates, who also funded it to the tune of some $150 million, and who clearly thinks he knows what’s best for everybody else’s children. (His own are safely ensconced in private schools).

California adopted the Common Core Standards (CCS) Initiative on August 2, 2010, only two months after the standards were released. Nor has this multi-billion dollar program ever been piloted anywhere! It’s a nationwide experiment—with our children as the subjects. Nor was CCS ever internationally benchmarked.

In California, as in most states, there was no time to devote to studying the intricacies of the program, vetting it, or introducing it to the public. Instead, Race to the Top money was dangled in front of state legislatures, and 45 states sprang for it, but 16 of these states at last count are already seeking to withdraw from the program.

Parents need to understand the implications of the Common Core Standards. These standards, which amount to a national curriculum via bundled tests, texts and teacher evaluations, would severely degrade our local schools. How? By lowering the standards of high-performing schools to make them “equal” with low-performing schools, in a misguided attempt to reach what its proponents call “equity” or “fairness” by mandating the lowest common denominator for all schools. True, this would close the much-ballyhooed “achievement gap”—but only by dumbing down the education of the best and brightest to better match that of the unmotivated and/or less academically gifted.

The idea that all students should perform identically sounds eerily like something out of Mao’s China. What happened to our relishing of individual talents and uniqueness? Would we lower the standards for the best athletes to put them on a par with mediocre athletes to close the “performance gap” in, say, high school football?

How do a few of the experts view this program? Dr. James Milgrim of Stanford University, the only mathematician on the Common Core validation team, refused to sign off on the math standards because he discovered that by the end of 8th grade, CCS will leave our students two years behind in math compared to those in high-performing countries. And according to Dr. Sandra Stotsky, the respected expert who developed the Massachusetts standards, widely regarded as the best in the nation, “Common Core’s ‘college readiness’ standards for ELA are chiefly empty skill sets and cannot lead to even a meaningful high school diploma. Only a literature-rich curriculum can. College readiness has always depended on the complexity of the literary texts teachers teach and a coherent literature curriculum.”

As English teacher Christel Swasey notes: “We become compassionate humans by receiving and passing on classic stories. Souls are enlarged by exposure to the characters, the imagery, the rich vocabulary, the poetic language and the endless forms of the battle between good and evil, that live in classic literature.” Instead, students will swim in the murky waters of relativism where all things are equal and no moral compass exists. We should not be surprised if they are also encouraged to view history along the lines of multiculturalism, “social equity,” and the Communitarian glorification of the collectivist “global village.”

Consider how drastically literature is being marginalized (30%) in favor of “informational” texts (70%) in the 12th grade, with a maximum of only 50% literature ever, throughout middle and high school English classes. The switch to a steady diet of “informational” texts virtually ensures that students won’t be learning to think critically or to write probing, analytical essays, let alone to develop the love of reading and appreciation for the literary masterpieces of Western culture. Put in practical terms, it means that instead of reading Hamlet, Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice, your child will be reading computer manuals and tracts on “climate change,” “environmental justice,” and the virtues of recycling.

And the price of mediocrity? In California, implementation cost is estimated at $2.1 billion, with $1.4 billion as upfront costs—mainly for computers (every child needs one—along with special apps—could that be one reason Bill Gates poured a cool $150 million into this program? Perhaps giving new meaning to the word “philanthropist”…) along with training teachers to navigate the complicated new programs. Even though it’s been proven—as if we needed proof—that children learn better from real live teachers than from staring at LCD screens.

In addition, tests and “assessments” will be taken on computers—resulting in the harvesting of personal data that amounts to a dossier on every child, including choice tidbits about Mommy and Daddy. And what is to stop the powers-that-be from using these assessments and test results to “re-educate” “politically incorrect” students who show too much independence?

Clearly Common Core is a disaster in the making. So what can we do? The simplest solution is to insist that our school boards turn down the carrot of federal funding and reject Common Core in order to preserve the integrity of our local schools through local control and to continue to allow our teachers to use their creativity in the classroom. The price of compliance with Common Core, however tempting monetarily speaking, is just too high—the mortgaging of our children’s future.

Cherie Zaslawsky is an educator/private tutor in California

http://educationviews.org/brave-new-schools/ 


Who Owns Organics?

 


HANFORD and CLINTON DEVELOP CHEMCIAL SEPARATION OF "PRODUCT" (PLUTONIUM) ...

Radiation Poisoning Discussion?


http://www.nci.org/p/pl-carnegie2000.htm

The human plutonium injection experiments carried out during and after the Manhattan Project have received tremendous notoriety in the past year or so owing to the Pulitzer-prize winning journalism of Eileen Welsome in the Albuquerque Tribune in 1993.

The Human Plutonium Injection Experiments, William Moss and Roger Eckhardt

http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/pubs/00326640.pdf

At that time, even before the demonstration of a chain reaction at Chicago, plans were already being made for construction of larger reactors to produce plutonium in the kilogram quantities needed for weapons. A pilot reactor would be built in Clinton, Tennessee, and production reactors would be built at the Hanford Engineer Works, a site in southern Washington adjacent to the Columbia River. The Clinton and Hanford facilities would also perform chemical separation of “product” (plutonium) from the reactor fuel pellets; Clinton would develop the process, Hanford would use it on a large scale with automated state-of-the-art facilities.

http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/ResourceMeetings/maps/resourcecenterHanford.htm

 

http://www.amazon.com/Undue-Risk-Secret-Experiments-Humans/dp/0415928354#reader_0415928354


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In Mafia terms, it’s called «making an offer that can’t be refused»: US Makes Syria an ‘Offer it Can’t Refuse’ – again

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Coyote HOWLIN ~ Israel is not a religious state other than worshiping the faith of how to prey upon all earth, including their own family and families when the cause demands.

The 'chosen' do not actually bond in a human 'friendship' and in actuality due to the wide spread of the mutilation practice [metzitzah b’peh, http://theartof12.blogspot.com/2013/04/metzitzah-bpeh-update-april-2-2013-baby.html ], as sold by the 'clergy' and of course the doctors too, lots of money in practicing 'Hobbling Our Society' ~ >> ~ http://campraxix.wordpress.com/category/clif-high/ ~~>>E4 – March 24, 2012 – The Grand Penis Conspiracy (warning…bound to offend, adults only…) FREE DOWNLOAD ],

our human being reality is what it is ~ mass murdering our own species.

Why?  More likely than not, NATURE stolen for thousands of years to control the human being population, and the thieves are from the people tribe who have thought that the ideology of 'Israel' and the practices of the faux 'religion - religious' is 'chosen' is a reality for earth wholly.

How can chosen be as predatory as it is, in the practice of taking what is natural and making believe sometime in the future there may or may not be, something that can or cannot happen?  Very confusing belief.  Why, IN the 'aught years', that is 21century, would the majority of human beings allow such a confused state of mind lead the planet earth as though this madness makes sense?!

SYRIA, IRAN'S ROUTE TO THE SEA

 
Author: Finian Cunningham
Source: strategic-culture.org

.. Now again, as the American-backed «peace conference» is being dangled in front of Damascus, Washington is replaying that same cynical offer. Either, drink from this poisoned political chalice – or «we’ll send the boys around to do their worst» ...

In Mafia terms, it’s called «making an offer that can’t be refused». The «offer» is not one of free choice between options that may benefit the object party. In reality, it is about setting up a scenario of duress, under which the object party is coerced to capitulate to detrimental terms of extreme prejudice determined cynically by the other party.

This is the scenario that Washington and its NATO allies are contriving for the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad…

The so-called international peace conference that may take place in the coming weeks, at the behest of Washington and Moscow, is ostensibly aimed at finding a negotiated end to the conflict in Syria that is now in its third year and which has resulted in up to 80,000 deaths. At least half of these deaths are believed to be civilian.

Russian officials have confirmed that the Syrian government is willing to participate, in principle, in the conference with factions of the Syrian «opposition» – provided, says Damascus, that the latter participants do not have «blood on their hands».

That criterion may yet turn out to make the forthcoming conference a non-runner since the main opposition group – the Western-backed Syrian National Coalition (SNC) – is entwined with a host of mercenary forces on the ground that are drenched in blood from a relentless campaign of terrorism and sabotage.

However, it is not even clear if the fractious and mainly exile-based SNC has any authority over the motley crew of militant groups – more than 75 per cent of whom are foreign self-styled jihadi extremists that emanate from 30 or more Arab and other countries, according to United Nations reports.

Chief among these groups that comprise the so-called Free Syrian Army is the Al Nusra Front, the main fighting force, which is aligned with the Al Qaeda-affiliated network that stretches from Russia’s Caucus region, through Afghanistan and Iraq, to Libya, Mali and Niger.

It has to be said that Russia’s intentions for a negotiated peace settlement seem to be honourable – and based on the principle of arriving at some kind of internal Syrian consensus. To that end, Russia maintains the position of not setting preconditions about the political fate of the incumbent President Assad. Russia is supported in this view by Iran and China. It is not, they say, for foreign governments or their regional allies and proxies to determine the outcome of the conference and in particular the political future of Assad.

Contrast that with the position of the other broker – Washington. At a preliminary meeting in Jordan this past week, the US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted, along with NATO allies, Britain, France, Italy and Germany, as well as the Persian Gulf Arab sheikhdoms, that Assad «must go».

Kerry told the assembled «Friends of Syria» that the US was not dictating the outcome of the planned peace conference, but then contradicted himself flatly by repeating the assertion that President Assad would not be part of any Syrian political transition.

«Can a person who has used artillery shells and missiles and Scuds and tanks against women and children and university students – can that person possibly be judged by any reasonable person to have the credibility and legitimacy to lead that country in the future?» asked Kerry.

The veracity of these allegations against the Assad regime is more than a moot point. There is substantial evidence that the violations Kerry was attributing to Syrian government forces, such as the rocket attack on Aleppo University in January that resulted in more than 80 deaths, were in fact committed by Western-backed militants. The use of chemical weapons near Aleppo in March has also been shown recently by Russian RTR journalists to be the work of Western-backed militants, not the regime, as Western governments have been insinuating.

But that aside, the immediate point here is that Kerry and his «Enemies of Syria» coalition are very much trying to dictate terms on the anticipated political process. That same Western intransigence was largely why the Geneva accord reached last June by the UN Security Council came unstuck – and tens of thousands more Syrian deaths followed.

Adding to the warped framework of negotiations, the US, Britain and France are also insisting – in contrast to Russia and China – that Iran should not be permitted to take part in the process. Of course, the NATO powers can rely on their Sunni allies among the Persian Gulf monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to endorse that stipulation. Why the Western powers and their Arab dictator friends have any more right than Iran – an ally of Syria with vital interests at stake in the conflict – is beyond their permitted rationale or discussion.

So, the upshot is that Assad is being offered a poisoned political chalice. On one hand, he is being told to forfeit the sovereign rights of his people to have him as their leader, and by all accounts a leader with a popular mandate, to give way to a negotiation with «opposition» parties who are solely designated, funded and patronised by foreign powers.

The SNC’s Ghassan Hitto, a Texas-based Syrian businessman, is designated by Washington, London and the former colonial power Paris as Syria’s premier-in-waiting. It is fair to say that Hitto, as with many other American-accented members of the SNC, has negligible popular support within Syria. That is, without any mandate from the Syrian population, these exiles are being foisted to negotiate the political future of Syria – a future that is extremely prejudicial in favour of Western geopolitical interests.

On the other hand – and this is where the Mafia analogy takes hold – the Western powers are making thinly veiled threats that if Assad does not conform to the warped political framework, that is, drink from the poisoned chalice, then all hell will break lose on this country with an even greater escalation of Western-backed violence.

«The United States is lobbying European governments to back a British-led call to amend [lift] the EU arms embargo on Syria,» reported the British Guardian this week, as Washington and its friend were gathering in Jordan.

Up to now, Washington has at least been maintaining the fiction that it is not arming the anti-Assad militants. It has, of course, been plying the mercenaries covertly with weaponry and logistics, along with its NATO allies and the Gulf Arab dictatorships.

Militant commander Brigadier General Salim Idriss has been pleading for Washington to begin openly supplying anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles – not just the assault rifles and explosives that have come so far through the clandestine CIA/MI6 conduits of Turkey, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Since last month, Washington officials have begun briefing media outlets, such as the Washington Post and the New York Times, that the Obama administration is moving towards more direct military intervention in aid of the militants in Syria. «We’re clearly on an upward trajectory,» a senior US official said somewhat cryptically on 30 April. «We’ve moved over to assistance that has a direct military purpose.»

Days later, in the first week of May, US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel hosted a press conference at the Pentagon with his British counterpart, Philip Hammond. «Arming the rebels, that’s an option,» said Hagel, indicating an apparent reversal of White House policy of ostensibly only sending «non-lethal aid».

And this week a US Senate committee voted in favour of Washington arming the «rebels» in Syria.

Secretary of State John Kerry is adding to this increasingly articulated threat. Voice of America reported from the Jordanian meeting last week: «Kerry says the Obama administration hopes President Assad ‘will understand the meaning of that’ [shift in US military policy towards Syria].»

This latent threat of greater aggression against Syria by the US, if it does not toe the political line as ordained by Washington, is not a new tactic in America’s underlying objective of regime change.

Last month, the Iranian FARS news agency reported that Syrian envoy to Iran, Adnan Mahmoud, disclosed that as far back as March 2011 – when the conflict was kicking off in Syria – that the then US Secretary of Defence, Robert Gates, had starkly told the Damascus government that it faced «a choice».

The Syrian envoy to Iran was quoted by FARS as saying: «Of course, in the very first weeks of the conflict in Syria, the US Secretary of Defence [Robert Gates] sent a message to the Syrian government, and said we should have cut our ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran if we wanted to stop the war, and stressed that if we did so, they [the US] would provide us with whatever we want». In other words, Washington was making Syria back then «an offer it couldn’t refuse». Well, Syria did refuse back in early 2011 to comply with US demands to cut its strategic ties with Iran, and as time has shown Damascus has since paid a heavy price in terms of human lives and the destruction of the country. 

http://www.syrianews.cc/makes-syria-offer-refuse/