Jun 17, 2011 — Privatization At The Heart Of Divisive Battles
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HUPO -- Privatization At The Heart Of Divisive Battles
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Privatization At The Heart Of Divisive Battles In Wisconsin (June 17, 2011)
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/17/privatization-wisconsin_n_873871.html
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ALEC's Restaurant
There are several Facebook pages where readers can begin getting up to speed on the Kamikaze attacks of the GOP-TEA Parties that are really in play in these States. Here's 3 for starters:
Democracy Watchdog Action Network
• https://www.facebook.com/democracy.watchdog.action.network
Wear Red For Public Ed
• https://www.facebook.com/wearredforpubliced
Support Bill Cronon
• https://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Bill-Cronon/163419837045434
Bill Cronon is a distinguished history professor who came under attack when he wrote an article about ALEC and the Mackinac Center, so the people who came to his defense began collecting data about these issues.
Related tags at the Daily Kos —
• http://www.dailykos.com/news/ALEC
• http://www.dailykos.com/blog/Exposing%20ALEC
Current update at the Daily Kos
• http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/15/985433/-EXPOSING-ALEC2nd-Update-with-important-news-and-links
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The American Revolution In Reverse
ALEC + GOP + TEA = East India Trading Company 2.0
This is just one more component of the Corporate Totalitarian Agenda, replacing everything that we have been accustomed to regard as the Public Sector with the Non-Representational Government of Privateerism.
I think a lot of people are being suckered into it out of sheer naivete, but the corporate con artists know perfectly well what they want and how they plan to get it.
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This is just one more component of the Corporate Totalitarian Agenda, replacing everything that we have formerly valued as the Public Sector with the Non-Representational Government of Privateerism.
I think a lot of mis-informed people are being suckered into their plot out of sheer naivete, but the corporate con artists know perfectly well what they want and how they plan to get it.
Global Corporations have no integrity, no loyalty, no nationality. They are perfectly content to colonize the world. They don't have to produce goods or provide services — that would be work — all they have to do is control the flow.
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ALEC's push for a private government extends across every State of the Union.
Michigan has its home-grown version of a Madison Avenue doublethink tank in the form of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy (MCPP). The MCPP closely coordinates with ALEC's agenda, not to mention their fellow travelers in the massive complex of crypto-lobbies that are run by the DeVos family and the Koch brothers.
Michigan's “Governerd” Rick Snyder and his band of Privateers in the GOP-controlled State Legislature are starving the public sector in Michigan out of existence for a reason, so that private corporations can complete their hostile takeover of all public services. They stopped being content with tax abatements, bailouts, bribes, incentives, kickbacks, and worker concessions a long time ago — they want nothing less than the automatic funneling of tax dollars directly into their private corporate bankrolls without the annoying interference of all us pesky commoners.
Mackinac Center For Public Policy • “State Needs Privatization”
• http://www.educationreport.org/15050
Lansing State Journal • “Going Private? — Snyder, Republicans Put New Focus On Merits Of Privatization”
• http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110515/NEWS04/105150528/GOING-PRIVATE-Snyder-Republicans-put-new-focus-merits-privatization
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Jun 21, 2011 — Few Details Emerge On Michigan College Promise
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HUPO -- Few Details Emerge On Michigan College Promise
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Detroit Education Reform : Few Details Emerge On Michigan College Promise (June 21, 2011)
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/detroit-education-reform-michigan-college-promise_n_881656.html
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Comment 1
The Broad Axe Falls Again …
Seattle Education Blog • “The Broad Foundation”
• http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/race-to-the-top/the-broad-foundation/
Seattle Education Blog • “Eli Broad’s Last Hurrah In Detroit?”
• http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/eli-broad’s-last-hurrah-in-detroit/
• http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/eli-broad%E2%80%99s-last-hurrah-in-detroit/
Don't sweat the details of their sales pitch. One thing we've learned about the Corporate Privateers is that it doesn't really matter what their PR says — the agenda is always the same.
Say hello to the East India Teaching Company?
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Comment 2
Here's a good article that will help Michiganders and other observers understand the brand of PR blitz — bankrolled by the Billionaire Boys (and Betsy) Club — that we can expect to see broadcast all over Detroit and Michigan in the upcoming year:
Michael T. Martin • “Waiting For SuperFraud”
• http://ksdcitizens.org/2010/12/22/waiting-for-superfraud/
The invasion of cash from so-called “philanthropists” is what is known in the Biz as a “Loss Leader”. Big bucks will be pumped into the system to make it look like the reforms are a smashing success. If that strategy works the way it has in other States and Washington, DC, a lot of data will get cooked and lot of Agenda-Driven Statistification (ADS) will get trumpeted all over the Corporate Air Waves in order to make it look like there was any improvement at all.
Never mind the small stuff, the truth won't matter. More big bucks will be pumped into rah-rah ads and corporate media “documentaries” to cover up the facts. By the time the Public figures out what is really going down, the school system will be so far down the road to privatization for corporate cash, command, and control that it will take the People all they can do to keep any shred of equal opportunity education at all.
You have to understand that these people are not philanthropists — “lovers of humanity” — they are investors. They don't give money away — they invest money for the sake of making more money, acting in tandem with their ego-driven need to force their personal ideology on the rest of the world. It does not make an ounce of difference to them if they have to destroy the American way of life — it's just so much collateral damage in their war on egalitarian representative democracy.
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Comment 3
The following Facebook page is a good resource for learning how communities across the nation are dealing with the ongoing degradation of their public education systems.
Wear Red For Public Ed • http://www.facebook.com/wearredforpubliced
Many people across the country are beginning to realize that there is a coordinated campaign by corporate-dominated State governments to turn back the clock on American education to something like the systems of private privilege we once had the good sense to revolt against.
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