The New Yorker magazine has a contest each week. On the last page of each issue is a cartoon without a caption. Readers are invited to dream up a caption, and the best one wins.
Now here is our contest. Jeb Bush, Bill Gates, Mike Bloomberg, and Oprah are meeting at a swank island resort off the coast of South Carolina. The news story suggests it is a secret conference convened by Bill.
Question: Why are they meeting?
Ready, set, go.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
trying to save the Common Core & inBloom from defection?
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I think they’re meeting to plot a socialist revolution.
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How much more money do we have to put into taking over those public schools? Geez!
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Discussing the FLIP Education Model (FLIP education from public to private):
Gates: Funds it (via Foundation)
Bush: Legalizes it (via Congress)
Bloomberg: Implements it (in NYC as a model).
Oprah: Promotes it via OWN.
Fund, Legalize, Implement and Promote.
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good one!
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Yes! I just had an “Aha moment”!
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If Oprah promotes it via OWN, not too many people will ever hear about it!
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Oooh, creepy how accurate that could be.
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Isn’t it obvious? They are preparing to take over the world!
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Using Oprah’s influence on the masses to get their agenda across…
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“How can we save the common folk from themselves, bless their hearts! They can’t possibly know what’s best. If they did, they’d be rich and famous like us!”
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I like this one so far, this should be the caption.
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Selecting a new Secretary of Education and mounting a PR campaign.
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Vicky, why would THEY need a new Secretary of Ed.? Arne’s already beholden to their side. Think you lose this one!
However, perhaps they are going over resumes and head shots to pick the new Michelle Rhee (national poster girl for the reform movement), since the original has so much baggage, and they’d spent so much time fawning over Rhee. This way, she could ride off quietly and slowly into the sunset, simply disappearing, thus saving them any future embarrassment while parading their new kid in town. Anyone have any ideas about that theory?
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retiredbutmissthekids. Your point is spot on. No need to replace a lackey who has been serving them well.
If Rhee is replaced, it would probably be by another TFAer with five weeks training and a couple years of classroom experience who they will call an “educator.”
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P.S. If replacing Rhee is the purpose of their meeting, perhaps they’ve been asking each other, “Do we know any cockroach eaters?”
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Hey! It was midnight! I’ll do better!
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“We propose uncommon valor among ‘our common core,’ but we need Diane Ravitch to join us. Ideas?”
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Find a way, with Oprah, to placate the black communities where schools are being closed. Make sure the public schools foreclosures proceed according to plan as it opens up a billion dollar charter industry and guarantees a reimbursements of tax money to private hands through the per pupil public education funding formula redirected into a steady revenue stream. It’s as risk-free as it could get for the entreneurial business. Competition is also very limited – there are few schools in each neighborhood. On the one hand, they have to convince the public that public education is a poor investment, and that there is no budget for it. On the other hand, public officials need to be convinced that privatizing education funding from taxes is a no brainer as a solid long term investment that pratically guarantees steady income for life!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5cJuAtNcJA
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Thanks for the laugh. Your farce analogy is an apt one!
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Maybe they are massing support for “The Powell Memo” (August 23, 1971) which asserts:
“The American political system of democracy under the rule of law is also under attack, often by the same individuals and organizations who seek to undermine the enterprise system.”
Perhaps they will fund the recommended education program where “the articles, the speeches, the media programs, the advertising, the briefs filed in courts, and the appearances before legislative committees – all must meet the most exacting standards of accuracy and professional excellence … [and] merit respect for their level of public responsibility and scholarship…”
Who could object to supporting “the rule of law” through “accuracy and professional excellence … public responsibility and scholarship?”
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Who could object to supporting “the rule of law” through “accuracy and professional excellence … public responsibility and scholarship?”
“Our schools today desperately need innovative leaders who can dust off the narrative that implores creation of a thoughtful public, as proposed by Thomas Jefferson, Horace Mann, John Dewey, and many other distinguished scholars.”
Education for Everyone: Agenda for Education in a Democracy – Page 129
books.google.com/books?isbn=078797224X
John I. Goodlad, Corinne Mantle-Bromley, Stephen John Goodlad
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Oprah is our best shot at convincing the dullards in this nation that one-size-fits-all is the answer to failing schools. She can just tell everyone that Common to the Core was channeled by the spirit of God and is THE best read in her brand new Book Club of informational texts.
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“For a few dollars more, we could own education AND ensure world peace.”
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They’re trying to figure out where to bury Michelle.
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Bear with me here……I did some searching and discovered some possible clues to the mystery.
Regarding Dan Gilbert-
Interestingly…He is reported to be gobbling up huge amounts or real estate in Detroit through his real estate entity, Bedrock Real Estate Services.and seems enblazoned with the task of creating economic turnaround in Detroit. He apparently now owns 20 major buildings in downtown Detroit. In one article he blasts Bill O’Reilly for his disparaging remarks duriong his show about Detroit being a hopeless dead end.
http://www.freep.com/article/20130501/BUSINESS06/305010140/1002/business
Regarding Gates- He did start a group waelthy called ‘The Giving Pledge’ which is gathering up billionares as members. The organization urges Billionaire to promise to give away 50% their fortunes before they die so that the money can be used to adddress world problems. ( with the Gates Foundation being given $31 billion by Warren Buffet, over half the Buffett fortune)) Warren Buffet has actively enlisted 11 new members. The Giving Pledge now has 114 signatories…all billionaires.. A comment was made that this is of considerable concern for billionaires who spend at least 15 min to an hour a month discussiong how to divest their wealth when they die. (oh my, my) http://www.gatesfoundation.org/who-we-are/general-information/leadership/management-committee/warren-buffett
Regarding Warren Buffett..On May 10th 2013, he held his annual investors meeting and made a comment to ABC reporter regarding the frustrating gridlock in Wash DC, the improvement in the stockmarket as slow by encouraging, immigration reform needing to make promising immigrants citizens and education ‘hundreds of thousands’ to make a contribution in this country. He spoke that he is bullish on promoting women as an under utilized resource and the key to a prosperous future.. For centuries we have delegated women to a just a few professions and we need to change that. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/warren-buffett-tough-to-watch-washington-gridlock/
Then there are the reports from a variety of media sources (ABC to more fanatic groups) that through the years, the billionaires have been regularly meeting to discuss the problem of Population Control as one of the major problems facing the world, Bill Gates advancing the issue (of course) through regularly scheduled summit meetings of the world’s wealthiest. In these articles, most of the well known billionaires are mentioned as having attended the meeting in London, another in ,New York and elsewhere to discuss promoting contraception and controlling the growing world population. There are supposed quotes from Bill and Melinda Gateson the topic. I would not put it past Mr Gates to be engrossed in this as yet another one of his mad scientist ventures….but it seems rather certain that there have, indeed, been billionaire meetings (summits) on this topic. Apparently it interests quite a few of them.
“WND reported in May 2009 when Gates joined some of the richest men and women in the world meeting secretly in New York to talk about using their vast wealth to bring the world’s population growth under control.
In addition to Gates, the meeting included some of the biggest names in the “billionaires club,” according to the London Times, including David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.” According to Natural News, Gates told the conference that the goal is a lower population, and using vaccines to improve early childhood health is a step in that direction. “If you could register every birth on the cell phone, get fingerprints, get a location, then you could take the systems where you go around and make sure the immunizations happen,” he said. “Run them in a more effective way.” He continued,” “That sounds paradoxical,” he said. “The fact is that within a decade of improving health outcomes, parents decide to have [fewer] children.” In May, the Gates Foundation gave a grant of $100,000 to researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to develop a new type of ultrasound described as a “non-invasive, reversible form of birth control for men.” The ultrasound would make a man infertile for up to six months.
http://www.lifenews.com/2009/05/25/int-1206/
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/bill-gates-world-needs-fewer-people/#TLF2uMAdsKrYgRR4.99
And on Jeb Bush’s participation…speculation abounds that the ‘secret meeting’ organized by Bill Gates, is to discuss Jeb’s run for the Presidency and muster the support of billionaire backers. As Warren Buffett stated in the link above…”Elections are not controlled by November elections anymore, they’re determined in the Primaries before November.” (Oh, well,,,silly me. I thought my vote mattered)
These are just some loose ends which may, or may not have connections to the most recent sighting of this flying flock of fabulous fortunes.
The most credible article of all is this one….The Philanthropic Challenge http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/16/gates-buffett-600-billion-dollar-philanthropy-challenge/
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Thanks for doing some homework, JoJo. This is truly frightening &, probably, frighteningly true.
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Hopefully it is not a campaign for another Bush presidency. Jebbie is supposed to be the smart one……good grief. Poor Barbara…her boys have been so disappointing.
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How much will it take to buy off Ravitch, boys? Okay, now let’s go play golf.
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Jeklly Island!
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Pefect Duane! I bet they are Hekylling the masses too.
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“That is what makes me feel successful. Of all the wonderful things that have happened, including getting a doctorate, an honorary doctorate from Duke, what really makes me feel successful is being able to use my life in service to someone else’s… and it is really fantastic to have your own jet, and anybody who says it isn’t is lying to you. That jet thing is really good.” Oprah Winfrey, May 10, 2009 commencement address at Duke University
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Oprah’s owns a $45M jet and from what I’ve been able to gather, it costs more money to fill its tank one time than I grossed last year.
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These are the handful of people who actually have the where-with-all to make a sizable dent in eradicating poverty in this country and it is not even on their agendas.
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Their sights are set on eradicating teachers, who have a median income of $45K in the US, as well as the schools they teach in, so the buildings can be given away for $1.
Billionaires and murderers really need to get hobbies that don’t involve dealing with people.
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Salon has a good video that describes Alex Gibney’s work: “Park Avenue: Money and the American Dream. The bumper sticker would be part of the mantra “I have a divine right to profits” which is reinforced by the individuals you name in the title. There is another one my nephew sent me that is on TED …. If these are not appealing, I would just put on Willie Nelson’s guitar tributes to farm aid because we are all going the way of the farmers (teachers, etc.)…. (video retrieved Monday after Mother’s Day)
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Reference: February 2013 “Who Controls the World” on TED.com James Glattfelder presenting. I will get out my reference to Schattschneider on why/why we are a “semi-soverign” nation…. (from Professor Iannacone’s class bibliography) while I listen to “farm aid” guitar . I always told my brother “you belong to the church of Willie Nelson” and laughingly I want to join.
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I imagine a world where what this group thinks and the plans they hatch would go nowhere, despite their billions, because autocratic tactics would be illegal in a democratic society.
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but that is just the point; we have a version of “democracy” and it is not well understood nor are the issues really addressed in public education except for some of the AP classes???? There are very strong ideological views behind each person’s interpretation of democracy and how it is supposed to work. We need to talk more about your imagined world and share how you would work for us to get there …. thanks for your comments.
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“…each person’s interpretation of democracy…”
Sad, isn’t it?
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I think a lot of us got a pretty good picture of what our democracy is really all about in 2000, when Jeb & SCOTUS handed POTUS to GW. I like to imagine a better world, too,
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Reference: The Semisovereign People: A Realist’s View of Democracy in America (1960), and Two Hundred Million Americans in Search of a Government (1969).
Don’t bother with the summary on WIKI because it is poorly written; it’s a paperback so read the author’s work. (Thanks to Professor Iannocone for introducing this book into the teacher education and leadership programs). One of my papers for his class described how state and local educational groups are competing for the same , very limited pot of money…. (this was before Romney put even more of a burden on locals.) My supervisor’s dissertation was on how the locals have to over-tax themselves to provide for schools and the inequities that result among communities in the state. There is one small NH district that has to assess local taxpayers every time a family moves into the district with one extra child. (this latter is anecdotal as I heard this from the aunt of the student in NH who lies in MA). Oprah and other celebrities would not be aware of any of this; they sign on for “glamour” and more celebrity.
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Well, so much for Bill Gates trying to position himself as a “liberal” exponent of so-called education reform.
And, hey, why no seat at the table for Randi Weingarten?
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She doesn’t have a jet yet?
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Yet. 🙂
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The masters of the universe simply meeting to touch base on their plan. One would call this a conspiracy…except that it is all right in front of us! Same story in every State! It is all there – common standards, testing, equity in financing, teacher and principal “pool” to be placed as needed…
Federal Public Schools???”
“This report summarizes how America’s K-12 education system, taken as a whole, fails our nation and too many of our children. Our system does not distribute opportunity equitably. ”
“these commissioners have engaged in the very difficult work of laying out a path for correcting hundreds of years of inequality in opportunity and outcomes for far too many Americans.”
Click to access equity-excellence-commission-report.pdf
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The article says Dan Gilbert was there, too. He is in the process of “remaking” Detroit by investing in downtown. I think he is realizing that a thriving city needs more than just businesses and sports venues downtown and is looking for help from these influential people in the next step–stabilizing and reviving public schools and neighborhoods. But where is Eli Broad?
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Mary, I don’t think the plan for Detroit will include public schools. There will be many more charters, and the remaining public schools will be the receivers for the kids the charters don’t want.
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“This meeting of the truly out of touch with reality will come to order.
first order on the agenda is spinning the half truths about charter schools going so we can break the unions…… any other ideas so we don’t have to waste more money on PR?”
Or
” I’d like to welcome back our mole….. Randi W!”
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How do we get out of this mess now that this has been discovered (http://www.suntimes.com/19982926-452/uno-charter-school-scandal-has-wall-street-worried.html) and can Opera help us (cause everyone love Opera)?
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sorry loves Oprah (darn auto spell check)
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Cee-GREAT Freudian slip! Perhaps OPERA CAN help us–you know, “it ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings?” (And, please–I am NOT talking about Oprah, here–I AM talking about opera–you know, the soulfully wailing Valkyrie lady with the helmet?)
Because I still believe that yes, WE can!
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Why don’t we institute a not-so-secret boycott of OWN, any phone that uses the MS operating system, Walmart and Sam’s Club?
And continue getting the word out about the coterie of billionaires whose philanthropy is ruining public education and the teaching profession.
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How do you solve a problem like Michelle? Sung to the tune of “How do you solve a problem like Maria?” from “The Sound of Music”
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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”― Friedrich Nietzsche
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*They reside high above on Mount Olympus where they discuss affairs related to the mortal world…. Lets listen in:
Bill Gates to the other assembled gods:
“I think the teacher videotapes will be hilarious, and watching their faces as we fire them: priceless!”
*http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Olympian_Gods
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Warren Buffet, Bill Gates’ mini-me*, is there too
*Gates Foundation to Get Bulk of Buffett’s Fortune – Washington Post
The roll out of Gates videotaping scheme and the bribery:
^2010: teacher-evaluations-gates-study-Organizing the study in Hillsborough and gaining parent consent for children to be videotaped required a massive effort, said district project coordinator Faychone Durant.
Teachers earned a $1,500 stipend out of a $2.2 million Gates grant for volunteering.
And the Hillsborough Education Foundation used around $370,000 of that money to gather parent consent forms from each participating student. Much of that was spent to give families a $10 gift card to McDonalds or AMC movies — a small incentive to return the forms.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/students-can-help-with-teacher-evaluations-gates-study-says/1139463
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HORRID persons = Gates and his elite friends who sit around and think about more horrible things to do.
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I think there should have been cameras and mics and we could have evaluated their “effectiveness”.
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I’d bet that very conversation has happened with that corporate creep and his female version, Michelle Rhee. Their professed humanitarian interest in upgrading education is a mockery and a farce!
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Maybe Warren Buffett is wondering why he gave $31 billion to Bill Gates Foundation, and now he wants to get some honest answers about these so-called ed reforms.
Maybe Bill is talking about the mess that is VAM, and that it should be scrapped entirely in favor of his handy little in-classroom cameras and Pearson’s new teacher-evaluation-by-video-snippets program.
Maybe Bill is asking Bloomberg how to make this work, since his company had 2400+ reporters worldwide spying on central bankers and Wall Street.
Maybe Oprah wants to stream OWN shows over Bloomberg’s terminals to boost sagging ratings.
Maybe Jeb Bush is pointing out that a Democratic president seems to have hit major obstacles in imposing “ed reform” through RttT. And that a Republican would do much better. But he needs serious campaign pledges. Even though he is very, very close to the Roberts court.
Rupert Murdoch and Joel Klein got snubbed because they have a tablet+curriculum product ready to go.
Paul Vallas got snubbed for being a Chicago Democrat close to the President’s men.
Randi Weingarten got snubbed for being too easy to see through.
Michelle Rhee got snubbed for getting caught up in the testing scandal — despite all the white washing she has benefitted from.
Let’s hope that Buffett is not a smiling, down-home snake oil salesman, but truly looking for honest answers.
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Hey, Oprah! Our wives love your big giveaway show, but we understand it’s a ticket thing.
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Buffett is subject of research paper for my comp class, based in legendary declaration he made in Nov ’06 that “There’s class war all right, but its my class, the rich, who are making war, and we’re winning.”…repeated Jun ’07 in NYC in front of 400 rich gathered to donate to Hilary. Buffett campaigns for tax fairness, for govt to “stopp coddling billionaires” as he puts it. Bloomberg coddles himself and other billionaires(about to hand over 13 more acres of a public park in NYC to an oil scion to build a pvt soccer stadium there instead of picnic/soccer grounds for working-class hispanic families in area, repeat of the handover of 2 parks in South Bronx 8 yrs ago). Buffett/Bloomberg are the bookends of the billionaire’s club with Gates the most skilled operator in political discourse(view the slick TED talk on how to get a great teacher in every classroom). Perhaps the level of conflict they aroused in public education concerns them b/c the local disruptions to kids, families, communities and school systems are out of control. Their rampage to privatize the assets of pub schls is leaving enormous disorder and discontent which even their labor captains like Weingarten, Van Roekel, etc., cannot manage for them. If so, congratulations to Diane and her blog! The rolling thunder is roiling the billionaires. Let’s keep going. We need our own strategy meeting, to acknowledge how much we have done and can do even in these worst of times, under the worst of conditions, with only a few tools at our disposal which we are using with striking effect.
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Maybe they’re all there to vote somebody off the island:
“The Tribe has Spoken… ______ it’s time for you to go.”
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Of course, according to the mantras we hear repeated ALL the time, “There are NO
conspiracies…ever!” Sounds at least naive, or worst a manipulation of the citizens to
ignore anything that the media moguls don’t want people to question OR pursue.
This little billionaire boys and girl meeting is a mirror image of the yearly retreats of
the Bilderberg international group meetings. The similarities are quite striking: both meet in luxurious hotels, both groups take over the whole premises, both have world leaders of industry, banking and presidents, etc., who attend these conclaves, and both
are truly paranoid about secrecy. Why, on all counts? Neither will release any press notices, but those who have been able to penetrate the Bilderburg conferences, walk away with alarming information regarding how these 1%’ers of the world intend to
play a real game of Monopoly with the globe. If the meetings were at least benign,
there would be no need to go to such lengths to have their intentions/plans be made
public. As JFK opined, secrecy is against the very nature of Democracy…he knew of what he spoke. As those of us in the full, frontal attack by corporate greed can attest to, this educational destruction did not just spontaneously happen. Maybe sh– does,
but every destroyed teacher, union and school district can verify, this assault is
anything but, “Dumb luck!” Until we can entertain a broader view of what is invading
our country in the diverse ways it is, ALL under the egis of corporations, bankers and their minions, we will fail to see the totality of what we are dealing with. As the “X Files”
opined, “The truth is out there.” One must do his/her homework concerning my
premise before discarding it and attributing the tenets as mere tin-hat blabbering s.
Of course, it is a given that the media, ever diminishing in news worthy content will never allude to any such groups. To stick our heads in the sands of senility, and
think our blissful, baseless thoughts that such malevolent powers could never exist here, it might be worthwhile reading Sinclair Lewis’s tome, “It can’t happen here” that he penned many decades ago when he realized the trouble we were so naively becoming a victim to. Simple, arbitrary rejection sans facts is the recipe for tyranny. Wouldn’t be the first time a nation fell to such truly “Bad players”…Marie Antoinette could
vouch for that reality of the world’s fragile vulnerability to Orwellian designs.
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They are posing for the new Mount Rushmore overlooking The Bridge to Nowhere.
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…while watching a Race to the Top on The Bridge to Nowhere in which EVERY Child is Left Behind.
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“This meeting has been convened so that we may consider what we can do to tackle the disgraceful nearly 25% child poverty rate in our country. With our combined wealth, we have more money than numerous nations on this planet, so it wouldn’t mean that anyone here has to give up their private jets.
As you all know, our focus has always been on donating to education, so that we appear to be beneficent givers who are aiming to remedy the human condition. But, the poverty rate has increased and the public is catching onto us, so we are going to talk today about refocusing our efforts on the real population in need: those poor school children’s parents, the unemployed and the low-wage worker.
Plan A: Who is willing to stop hiding assets on foreign soil and pay US tax rates, so the government can pitch in and help us with this project?
No givers? No one? OK then, moving along
Plan B: Who is willing to stop outsourcing jobs to foreign countries and instead hire and pay US employees a livable wage with benefits?
No givers? No one? OK then
Plan C: Who is willing to stop importing H1B1 workers and instead hire and pay US employees a livable wage with benefits?
No givers? No one? OK then
Plan D: Who is willing to hire and pay US employees a livable wage with benefits?”
“Why do they need benefits?”
“Good point. OK then
Plan E: Who is willing to hire and pay US employees a livable age?”
“Why do they need a livable wage?”
“Great point. OK then
Plan F…
No one?
Plan G:…
None again?
…
Plan H…
Still no givers? OK then. Let’s cut to the chase:
Plan Z: Who is willing to take a profit from privatizing public education and give up an eternity in Heaven so they can continue to increase and hoard all their wealth in life?
Everyone? OK then. So it’s business as usual. But remember, we still have look like we are givers who are aiming to remedy the human condition. Now give a shout out stating the name of your company, so we can call this little junket a “business meeting” and get a tax write-off, and then move on to the real task at hand, indulging ourselves in some well-deserved Dom Pérignon and caviar for all of our hard work.”
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Veteran: Clever! Unfortunately, most likely scenario…and don’t forget the “Bwah-ha-haahs!”
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Oprah is just convening a meeting of her book club. They will be having a discussion about Diane’s new book.
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How do you know this? It is not out until September, so how can they discuss it?
Diane, don’t tell me you are giving advanced copies to Oprah? I want one.
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Horace Manic, if there were a Prize for best entry, you win!
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Stupid me….I thought it was real. What a dope!
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I think you win a prize for best name of a commenter!
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Which schools shall we close today?
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Why would anyone have reason to believe that this is about something negative? It’s readily apparent that all of these people are really good-hearted souls who have nothing but the best of intentions. They have a track record of being do-gooders.They are not planning to harm anyone. They are not angling to improve their already substantial lot. Why would they need more? I believe the secret is something positive.
I believe they are meeting with Oprah in regard to airing a new version of The Millionaire show on OWN. That was the TV show which ran from 1955 – 1960 where, each week, someone was given a check for $1M, with taxes prepaid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_(TV_series)
That was fiction though, and these altruistic benefactors really care about their fellow human beings, so this TV show will be about real people and it will be in documentary format. Also, $1M won’t go as far today due to inflation, so the real live recipient each week will be given $10M tax free. (I believe in the Secret.)
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Planning Jeb’s run for President.
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Ding, Ding, Ding!! You win!
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THE HORROR ❢❢❢ THE HORROR ❢❢❢
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Buffet and Gates are Democrats and ardent supporters of Obama, who has served them very well. Why would they turn GOP and support Jeb when it’s precisely their “bipartisan” approach that has pushed the privatization agenda so far in the past for years? Oprah is a turn-coat who loves Chris Christie, so I can see her getting behind a GOP candidate, but I don’t think Buffet and Gates would do that –at least not publicly.
Jeb’s agenda is too blatant. Corporate education “reformers” would need a another candidate who can fool the public into believing they care about people more than corporations, as Obama did. Someone from Arkansas who has supported the Waltons would do, like Hillary. Were there any Waltons at this meeting?
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Wise comments, although I would beg to differ about the intellectual abilities to divine Jeb’s motives, intentions. I think you far over rate such critical thinking prowess of the public! When the pivotal question about a potential president can be distilled down to Chris Mathew’s often repeated acid test of, “WHO would YOU want to drink a beer with?”
Can anyone doubt that anything of great consequence ever darkens the public’s mind?
I seriously doubt it!
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Au contraire. I do not at all attribute “such critical thinking prowess” to the public. The point I was trying to make is that the public is starting to realize that the GOP represents the 1%, but they don’t fully realize that the Democrats do as well, so another neo-liberal Clinton would probably have a better chance of being elected as POTUS.
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