FAT CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG: Evidence has now been made public of illegal actions and collusion between former California Public Utilities Commission president Michael Peevey and utility PG&E, as criminal investigations continue. As part of a federal and state investigation into what appears to be systemic corruption involving former senior executives at PG&E […]
Archives for February 2015
Go to Prison for Sharing Files? That’s What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States’ excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the same lengths so it will be harder to […]
HOW TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC EDUCATION WAS KILLED!
No Way ESEA! How Corporations Profit from Hyped Up Education Crises “Pearson wields enormous influence over American education. It writes the textbooks and tests that drive instruction in public schools across the nation.” POLITICO reported on Stephanie Simon’s article “No profit left behind: In the high-stakes world of American education, Pearson makes money even when […]
Ecosystems are Like the Tides
When I entered the US Navy in 1963 I took an extensive class in Navigation. One of the major subjects within the class was, “Tides”. In addition to “high tide” and “low tide”; and spring tides and neap tides, our instructor mentioned a particular concept that was both peculiar to those times and a likely […]
The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever
New data shows that the “vanishing” of polar ice is not the result of runaway global warming When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were […]
Perhaps you didn’t know… Schools across the country are literally building solitary confinement cells for children.
What is “normal”? Is normalcy a condition of public acceptance to common trends & culture? Per it’s definition, normal is defined as conforming to a standard: usual, typical or expected. If you accept normalcy by that definition then… ‑it is normal for kids in our public school system to be locked in solitary confinement (4×4 padded […]
Superior Court (Alameda County) Rules in Favor of ABAG and One Bay Area
Litigation Seeks to Protect the American Form of Government In a result oriented decision, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo ruled against Freedom Advocates and others in the war over protecting Cities and Counties from a transformation of local government (One Bay Area). The new form of government in the San Francisco Bay Area […]
Anita Hoge Tells All About Testing Attitudes
No Way ESEA! WATCH & LISTEN to a riveting presentation by Anita Hoge! (Start listening about the 23 minute mark) The February 5th interview Anita Hoge did with John Wells of Caravan To Midnight radio is now posted on YouTube. This is a “must watch.” Maybe you are a person who has trouble reading and digesting all of […]