The World Economic Forum is calling for more direct action to end the pending food crisis. Amazing how that is timed with Oregon and Idaho water restrictions and Michigan Avian Flu crisis. Want fries with the grasshopper burger?
Controlled Conversations – Muting Non Platform Voices
Scientific Management Applied To Schools
Industry was used as the example of success, identifying output and productivity as the key factors of measurement over thinking. Education was in crisis, there was a desperate need for reform. In 1903 The Atlantic Monthly published an article by William Bagley with new requirements: teachers would be obedient to administrators, students MUST be obedient and rigid routine was to be implemented. By 1910 articles began to praise some institutions stating “Our universities are beginning to run as business colleges”.
Then a campaign against public school began. From the NEA and Carnegie came the following mission:
The character of our education must change with the oncoming of the years of this highly practical age. We have educated the mind to think and trained the vocal organs to express the thought, and we have forgotten the fact that in four times out of five the practical man expresses his thought by the hand rather than mere words.
While technical training is vital, so is imparting the ability for a person to use their mind. What the industrialists wanted to limit thoughts of liberty and ideals that would perhaps disobey. This would affect efficiency.
Bill Gates has been very vocal about education, and the Gates Foundation has funded efforts in all 50 states to ensure that Common Core is fulfilled in schools.
https://apnews.com/article/a4042e82ffaa4a34b50ceac464761957
His nonprofit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given about $44 million to outside groups over the past two years to help shape new state education plans required under the 2015 law, according to an Associated Press analysis of its grants. The spending paid for research aligned with Gates’ interests, led to friendly media coverage and had a role in helping write one state’s new education system framework.
Over the past 20 years Gates has spent 53 billion on education
And a component that Gates has always been interested in is tracking students’ data.
inBloom Background
New York was the last inBloom participant to share data statewide, involving the personal information of 2.7 million students, and intended to do this without any parental notification or consent.
Note that Bill Gates talking about efficiency in school systems is not new: in 1910 the NEA had a similar message for education.
All over the country our course are being attacked and the demand for revision is along the line of fitting mathematical teaching to the needs of the masses
The Creature From Jekyll Island
This book was published in 1994. It had a great influence on me, as it imparted a good back ground on the weakness of fiat currency. The book covered the history of money, and relayed that gold as currency held it’s value for hundreds of years.
G. Edward Griffin’s “The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve” is a lengthy and controversial book that argues that the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) is a powerful and secretive institution that has deliberately undermined the American economy and freedom for the benefit of a powerful, unelected elite. Here’s a summary of its key arguments:
Core Thesis: The book argues that the Fed is not a neutral, beneficial institution but rather a carefully orchestrated scheme created by wealthy bankers on Jekyll Island in 1910 to seize control of the U.S. monetary system. This control, Griffin claims, allows them to manipulate the economy for their own profit and power.
The Secret Meeting on Jekyll Island: Griffin details the clandestine meeting of prominent bankers and government officials on Jekyll Island in 1910, where he argues the plan for the Federal Reserve was hatched. He claims this meeting was held in secret to avoid public scrutiny and debate.
The Creation of the Fed: The book alleges that the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which established the Fed, was deliberately written to obscure its true purpose and give immense power to private bankers. Griffin argues it was essentially a private banking cartel masquerading as a public institution.
Fractional Reserve Banking: The book heavily criticizes the practice of fractional reserve banking, where banks loan out more money than they have in deposits. Griffin argues this system is inherently inflationary and allows banks to create money out of thin air, essentially a form of counterfeiting.
Inflation and the Business Cycle: Griffin claims the Fed’s manipulation of the money supply is the primary cause of inflation, boom-and-bust cycles, and economic instability. He argues the Fed intentionally creates these cycles for the benefit of its banking members.
Debt and Government Control: The book argues that the Fed’s manipulation of the money supply leads to excessive government debt, making the government beholden to the banking system. This debt, in turn, allows the bankers to exert further control over society.
Loss of Freedom: Griffin contends that the Fed’s actions, including inflation and economic manipulation, ultimately erode individual freedom and liberty, leading to greater government control and a decline in the standard of living for the average citizen.
International Bankers Conspiracy: Throughout the book, Griffin suggests that the Fed is part of a larger conspiracy by international bankers to establish a global financial system and ultimately a one-world government.
One consistent requirement of utopian procedure is detachment of its subject from ordinary human affairs. Acting with detached intelligence is what utopians are all about, but a biological puzzle intrudes: detaching intelligence from emotional life isn’t really possible.
John Taylor Gotto