Connect the Dots of the Corporatocracy…

I love the sheer amount of information on the Internet, but it makes it hard to remember where you saw things. Bookmarks don’t work for me. I end up with humongous bookmark folders and it takes me longer to find the link in them than to just start from scratch and google the damn thing. However, things that were once there, move or disappear (like, oh, say, all News stories for the 6 months pre-9/11, but I digress… oh wait, that’s not really a digression is it? Anyway…). So once upon a time, some years ago, there was this coolie site that was all Ajax-y and showed all the White House, Congress and Senate, and their prior (-ish) jobs or positions on corporate boards, ie the Corporatocracy. You could click on a name and the corporation would zoom into place and you could see all the current and previous board members and their political positions, current and previous. WTF happened to it?? I’ve searched many times… yes for *hours*. It was that cool. And resourceful. Until someone creates this tool again, the above venn chart is a decent substitute. [tweet “When you find yourself wondering just who is in whose pocket, take a peek at Your Government, ie the Corporatocracy, at work”]

 

 

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I Don’t Believe in Coincidences

Do you know who John O’Neill is? If not, do yourself a service and make some popcorn and settle in and watch this video. This is my favorite video about 9/11 because we go through big time doubts as the main character goes through them. It’s not trying to hammer the answer into us, only data to support more questions. It’s saying here’s some info with no opinion, and here’s some more info, and here’s some more and wait… here’s some more… ok wait wha…? Give it a try before you start slinging that silly conspiracy theorist phrase around. 

Who Killed John O’Neill

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Why the Education System is a Mess

I could rant here but I’ll quote John Taylor Gatto, former NYC school principal.

“The real makers of modern schooling weren’t at all who we think. Not Cotton Mather or Horace Mann or John Dewey. The real makers of modern schooling were leaders of the new American industrialist class, men like: AndrewCarnegie, the steel baron… John D. Rockefeller, the duke of oil… Henry Ford, master of the assembly line which compounded steel and oil into a vehicular dynasty… and JP Morgan, the king of capitalist finance.”

“You aren’t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livelihood, even though one in every nine schoolchildren is terrified of physical harm happening to them in school, terrified with good cause; about thirty-three are murdered there every year. From 1992 through 1999, 262 children were murdered in school in the United States. Your great-great-grandmother didn’t have to surrender her children. What happened?
If I demanded you give up your television to an anonymous, itinerant repairman who needed work you’d think I was crazy; if I came with a policeman who forced you to pay that repairman even after he broke your set, you would be outraged. Why are you so docile when you give up your child to a government agent called a schoolteacher?”

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You can read his book The Underground History of American Education, in its entirety at 

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row]

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