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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance | | Alt... - 0 views

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  • How exactly has American society subdued young Americans?  1. Student-Loan Debt. Large debt—and the fear it creates—is a pacifying force.
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      Jon Snow on 26 Aug 11
       
      Endettés à hauteur de dizaines de millers de $ à 20 ans ça calme n'importe qui. En tout cas ça t'occupe car il faut rembourser. Sont tombés dans une belle saloperie.
  • Today in the United States, two-thirds of graduating seniors at four-year colleges have student-loan debt, including over 62 percent of public university graduates. While average undergraduate debt is close to $25,000, I increasingly talk to college graduates with closer to $100,000 in student-loan debt.
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      Jon Snow on 26 Aug 11
       
      Wow... chapeau les politics. Ou comment tuer en deux générations sa jeunesse.
  • Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.” Fromm died in 1980, the same year that an increasingly authoritarian America elected Ronald Reagan president, and an increasingly authoritarian American Psychiatric Association added to their diagnostic bible (then the DSM-III) disruptive mental disorders for children and teenagers such as the increasingly popular “oppositional defiant disorder” (ODD). The official symptoms of ODD include “often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules,” “often argues with adults,” and “often deliberately does things to annoy other people.”
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      Jon Snow on 26 Aug 11
       
      Le refus de soumission à l'autorité = trouble psy = maladie. Les antidepresseurs sont pas loin, ou plutôt les submissives pills.
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  • A generation ago, the problem of compulsory schooling as a vehicle for an authoritarian society was widely discussed, but as this problem has gotten worse, it is seldom discussed.
  • Heavily tranquilizing antipsychotic drugs (e.g. Zyprexa and Risperdal) are now the highest grossing class of medication in the United States ($16 billion in 2010); a major reason for this, according to theJournal of the American Medical Association in 2010, is that many children receiving antipsychotic drugs have nonpsychotic diagnoses such as ODD or some other disruptive disorder (this especially true of Medicaid-covered pediatric patients). 
  • Television. In 2009, the Nielsen Company reported that TV viewing in the United States is at an all-time high if one includes the following “three screens”: a television set, a laptop/personal computer, and a cell phone. American children average eight hours a day on TV, video games, movies, the Internet, cell phones, iPods, and other technologies (not including school-related use).
  • The more schooling Americans get, however, the more politically ignorant they are of America’s ongoing class war, and the more incapable they are of challenging the ruling class.
  • Parents routinely check Web sites for their kid’s latest test grades and completed assignments, and just like employers, are monitoring their children’s computers and Facebook pages.
  • . “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.” The corporatocracy has figured out a way to make our already authoritarian schools even more authoritarian. Democrat-Republican bipartisanship has resulted in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, NAFTA, the PATRIOT Act, the War on Drugs, the Wall Street bailout, and educational policies such as “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.” These policies are essentially standardized-testing tyranny that creates fear, which is antithetical to education for a democratic society. Fear forces students and teachers to constantly focus on the demands of test creators; it crushes curiosity, critical thinking, questioning authority, and challenging and resisting illegitimate authority. In a more democratic and less authoritarian society, one would evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher not by corporatocracy-sanctioned standardized tests but by asking students, parents, and a community if a teacher is inspiring students to be more curious, to read more, to learn independently, to enjoy thinking critically, to question authorities, and to challenge illegitimate authorities. 
  • Fundamentalist consumerism pacifies young Americans in a variety of ways. Fundamentalist consumerism destroys self-reliance, creating people who feel completely dependent on others and who are thus more likely to turn over decision-making power to authorities, the precise mind-set that the ruling elite loves to see.
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A rightwing insurrection is usurping our democracy | George Monbiot | Comment is free |... - 0 views

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  • A consultant who worked for the billionaire Koch brothers claims that they see the funding of thinktanks "as a way to get things done without getting dirty themselves".
  • From the beginning, senior journalists on the Telegraph, the Times and the Daily Mail volunteered their services. Every Saturday, in a wine bar called the Cork and Bottle, Margaret Thatcher's researchers and leader writers and columnists from the Times and Telegraph met staff from the Adam Smith Institute and the Institute of Economic Affairs. Over lunch, they "planned strategy for the week ahead". These meetings would "co-ordinate our activities to make us more effective collectively". The journalists would then turn the institute's proposals into leader columns while the researchers buttonholed shadow ministers.
  • As Pirie's history progresses, all references to funding cease. Apart from tickets donated by British Airways, no sponsors are named beyond the early 1980s. While the institute claims to campaign on behalf of "the open society", it is secretive and unaccountable. Today it flatly refuses to say who funds it.
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  • Pirie describes how his group devised and refined many of the headline policies implemented by Thatcher and John Major. He claims (and produces plenty of evidence to support it) either full or partial credit for the privatisation of the railways and other industries, for the contracting-out of public services to private companies, for the poll tax, the sale of council houses, the internal markets in education and health, the establishment of private prisons, GP fundholding and commissioning and, later, for George Osborne's tax policies.
  • Today's parliamentary equivalent is the Free Enterprise Group. Five of its members have just published a similar manifesto, Britannia Unchained. Echoing the narrative developed by the neoliberal thinktanks, they blame welfare payments and the mindset of the poor for the UK's appalling record on social mobility, suggest the need for much greater cuts and hint that the answer is the comprehensive demolition of the welfare system. It is subtler than No Turning Back. There are fewer of the direct demands and terrifying plans: these movements have learned something in the past 30 years.
  • Once more the press has taken up the call. In the approach to publication, the Telegraph commissioned a series of articles called Britain Unleashed, promoting the same dreary agenda of less tax for the rich, less help for the poor and less regulation for business. Another article in the same paper, published a fortnight ago by its head of personal finance Ian Cowie, proposes that there be no representation without taxation. People who don't pay enough income tax shouldn't be allowed to vote.
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    Le lobbyisme des corporations tourne à fond pour en finir avec l'état providence et ramener le monde à l'état sauvage. Merci les gars.
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Chomsky : L'éducation est ignorance (Extrait du livre Class Warfare -1995) pa... - 0 views

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  • e simple fait que le concept « anti-américain » puisse exister – je ne parle pas de son utilisation – manifeste un côté totalitaire vraiment dramatique. Ce concept, l’anti-américanisme – sa seule véritable contrepartie est l’anti-soviétisme dans le monde moderne. Dans l’Union Soviétique, le pire crime était d’être anti-soviet. C’est la caractéristique d’une société totalitaire d’avoir des concepts tels que ceux-ci. Ici c’est considéré comme naturel. Les livres sur l’anti-américanisme, par des gens qui sont essentiellement des clones de Staline, sont hautement respectés. C’est vrai des sociétés anglo-américaines, qui sont de façon frappante les plus démocratiques. Je pense qu’il y a une corrélation… Alors que la liberté s’accroît, le besoin de forcer et de contrôler l’opinion grandit aussi si vous voulez empêcher la « grande bête » de faire quelque chose de sa liberté…
  • …Dans leurs travaux sur le système éducatif américain il y a quelques années, deux économistes, Sam Bowles et Herb Gintis, ont fait remarquer que le système est divisé en morceaux. La partie destinée aux travailleurs et à la population est en effet conçue pour imposer l’obéissance. Mais l’éducation destinée aux élites ne peut être identique. Elle doit permettre la créativité et l’indépendance, sinon ils ne pourront faire leur boulot, c’est à dire faire de l’argent. Vous trouvez la même chose dans la presse. C’est pour cela que je lis le Wall Street Journal, le Financial Times et Business Week. Ils doivent dire la vérité. C’est une contradiction dans la presse généraliste aussi. Prenez le New York Times et le Washington Post par exemple. Ils ont une double fonction et elles sont contradictoires. L’une des fonctions est de soumettre la grande bête, l’autre est de laisser leurs lecteurs, qui font partie de l’élite, se faire une image raisonnablement réaliste de ce qui se passe dans le monde. Ils ne pourront satisfaire leurs propres besoins sinon. C’est une contradiction qui se ressent jusqu’au sein du système éducatif. C’est totalement indépendant d’un autre facteur, à savoir l’intégrité professionnelle, que beaucoup de gens ont : l’honnêteté, quelles que soient les contraintes extérieures. Cela mène à diverses complexités. Si vous regardez dans le détail la façon dont les journaux fonctionnent, vous trouvez ces contradictions et ces problèmes qui se développent ensemble de manière compliquée...
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    Elle est belle la reprise US. Des dizaines de milliers de profs virés... pour incompétence...uh?!!
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  • In Kentucky 978 people died from prescription drug overdose in 2009.   The average age drug addicts in Kentucky start using is 11.
  • Sarah Shay and Savannah Kissick were school friends in Morehead, both addicted to an array of perfectly legal drugs. Sarah died in 2006, at the age of 19. Savannah followed three years later, aged 22. Both victims of an epidemic of prescription pill abuse sweeping parts of America. When their mothers reel off the names together, they make them sound like weapons. "Xanax. Klonopin. Oxycodone. Hydrocodone." Earlier this year, the White House described the epidemic as the country’s fastest growing drug problem, accounting for more accidental overdoses than the combined total from heroin and crack cocaine in the 1970s and 80s.
  • The pill crisis, which some are calling pharmageddon, is only now receiving national attention.
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      Jon Snow on 27 Aug 11
       
      mieux vaux tard que jamais : | "mon fils de 11 ans est accro au xanax docteur, qu'est ce que je dois faire?" "je vais lui prescrire du Fixocon pour le soulager un peu.." "Ah merci docteur!"
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  • As part of an initiative announced in April, the White House demanded that the makers of one class of drugs, known as "extended release and long-acting opioids", make more concerted efforts to educate doctors and patients
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      Jon Snow on 27 Aug 11
       
      S'il-vous-plait chers patrons dealers, dites à vos revendeurs de faire gaffe , si vous pouvez...
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    Ah la science et le commerce: Un couple formidable.
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Video - Entretien avec Pierre Rabhi : Histoire, Peur, Connaissance, Education - 0 views

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    Pierre Rabhi sur la vie, la spiritualité, la connaissance de soi, la nature, la civilisation moderne etc.
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ContreInfo :: Contre la suppression de l'Histoire-Géographie en Terminale Sci... - 0 views

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    Décidement il n'y a que des idiots dans ce gouvernement. A moins que ce ne soit des fascistes!
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