School Ain't what it Use to Be

A Bachelors degree at a 4 year university is no longer worth the $25,000 investment.  Instead of preparing the next generation of leaders for the jobs of tomorrow a 4 year university degree college has become a finical black hole that most people will NEVER pbe able to pay back. 

High school students have it drilled into their heads that they MUST go to college!   It USE TO BE true that a college education WAS worth the money.  The fact of the matter is that the quality of education at America's colleges and universities is ranked just above West Nigeria in SAT scores.   The thing NO ONE is talking about is that there are way too many college graduates and not nearly enough quality jobs.

In the USA there are millions upon millions of Americans that are enslaved, FOR LIFE, to student loan debt.   The cold hard truth is that 98 percent of  college graduates with a bachelor degree just bought a ticket to a crappy low level job. 


Disturbing Facts about a College Education  

1) After adjusting for inflation, U.S. college students are borrowing about twice as much money as they did a decade ago.

2) The total amount of student loan debt in the United States now exceeds the total amount of credit card debt in the United States.

3) Over the past 25 years, the cost of college tuition has increased at an average rate that is 7-10 percent higher than the average rate of inflation.

4) The cost of college textbooks has tripled over the past decade.

5) The student loan default rate has doubled since 2005 and will soon triple.

6) 15 percent of all students that graduate with student loan debt end up defaulting within 3 years of making their first student loan payment.

7)  Federal statistics reveal that only 40 percent of the full-time students who began college in 2001 received a bachelor's degree within four years.

8) 33 percent of college grads end up taking jobs that don't even require college degrees.

9) In the United States today, over  100,000 janitors that have college degrees.

10) In the United States today, over 450,000 waiters and waitresses have college degrees.

11) In the United States today, over 360,000 cashiers now have college degrees.

12) Today in 2011 there are more then 8 million college grads under 25 living with their parents because they have a diploma, but can't find a job.

13)  Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households for the ages of 25 to 34 have fallen by about 12 percent, while college costs have increased by 50 percent in the last ten years.

14) The only way 99 percent of college grads will be able to pay off their college loans in their life time is to win the Lottery.

 

The out right decapitation of the Polish government by Russian forces in Smolensk has been inundated by misdirection, slight of hand, and outright lies.

In the case of Polish President's Plane crash in Smolensk, Russian Intelligence was sure because of the heavily wooded area and difficult to reach location there would be no eye-witnesses.   As with all intel operations misjudgement and assumptions caused mistakes to be made. 

The mobile phone video shot seconds after the plane was intentionally brought by Russian intelligence was seen worldwide.  This was a major flaw in the Russian's plan, which, was to blame the crash on weather and pilot error.   

In the video there are people shouting Polish words in authoritative and angry tone: "Calm down! Look into my eyes! Change of plans!"
 
There are clear sounds of  gunfire.  Make no mistake, the survivors were being executed by Russian/Polish-traders special forces.  

The 10 official lies according to Leszek Szymowski, the former journalist of the weekly „Wprost" and TVP, the author of the controversial book titled: "Zamach w Smoleńsku," (Assasination in Smoleńsk)

1.The President's Tupolev airplane flew to Smolensk registered as an international flight. It's a lie: The plane was the governmental TU 154M, and the flight to Smolensk was registered as the military flight.

2.The crew of the plane was inexperienced and made fundamental mistakes. Ignoring orders of the air controllers and making an attempt to land. It's a lie: Pilots were professionally trained and had great experience, and the controller gave them permission to land.

3. At 8:41 am, after collision with a birch tree, the plane turned to its back and hit the ground. Power of the load factor killed all passengers. Nobody survived. It's a lie: Tupolev cut trees down, but to some point damaged, managed to make emergency landing in the mud. O8: 39 the strength of the bomb explosion tore it into pieces and killed some passengers. The ones, who survived, were murdered with firearms.

4.The video shot on the spot with a mobile phone by Wołodia Safonienko does not make any difference, and the sounds registered there, come from the explosion of the ammunition  of  Government Protection Bureau officers. It's a lie: Wołodia Safonienko didn't shoot this film. The sounds of the shots came from firearms, and the film is the evidence that passengers who survived, were murdered.

5.The investigation from the very beginning was conducted altogether by Poland and Russia, the cooperation was superb and it was led according to the highest standards. It's a lie: the Tusk government let the Russians carry the investigation and  the Polish prosecutor's office could hardly say anything. From the very beginning the Russians did monkey business.

6.From the very first second, the families of the victims were provided with legal and psychological aid and could participate in all activities. All bodies of the victims were identified and  transported to Poland.
It's a lie: families of victims have been humiliated from the beginning and had difficulties to get access to the investigative materials. The coffins brought to Poland were soldered and the families were not permitted to open them.

7.Polish and Russian investigators, bearing in mind importance of the case, diligently informed the public about the progress in the investigation and about the most important arrangements. It's a lie.  From the very first second after the crash, it has been a well organised disinformation action. Both Polish and Russian investigators lied. The Russian MAK Comitee and both governments lied as well.

8.Russian Security Services didn't have the slightest interest in killing Lech Kaczyński, because in a few months he would stop being a president and would walk away into the political oblivion. It's a lie: Lech Kaczyński could win elections again. He acted against the politics of Russian  imperialism, he tried to get Georgia into NATO. He reinforced the independence of Poland, contributed to dissolution of WSI (Poland's former Military Intelligence Services) and opposed the disadvantageous regulations of the gas agreement with Russia.

9.After the death of President Kaczyński, relations with Russia have been normalized, and relationships between both states have became eventually correct . It's a lie. Polish foreign policy turned into prorussian direction, and the servility of the government and the president Komorowski towards Russia have reached inconceivable scale.

10.The death of Lech Kaczyński was a result of the disaster being an effect of many ill-fated circumstances. It's a lie: Lech Kaczyński was murdered.

This deliberate assassination of the entire top echelon of the Polish government, including the Polish President was accomplished by the same organization with the same agenda as the 9/11 attacks within the United States. 

 

US Governemnt Burning BIBLES

This video shows the difference between how the US government handles the HOLY BIBLE, the word of Almighty GOD and the false gospel the Koran.

The U.S. government condemns burning the Qur'an. Yet the U.S. government burns Bibles. This is a clear violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Judicial Tyranny

A US Federal judge decides that HE is the ONLY judge of who is an ‘authorized journalist' and who is not.  

U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernández  ruled that “investigative blogger” Crystal L. Cox “was not a journalist and cannot claim the protections afforded to mainstream reporters and news outlets.” 

In his ruling Judge Marco A. Hernández  arbitrarily decided  “investigative blogger” Crystal L. Cox Montana blogger was not acting as a journalist when she lambasted an Oregon attorney in online statements.

The ruling by Judge Marco A. Hernández began as a lawsuit filed against Internet blogger Crystal Cox that accused her of defaming Oregon attorney Kevin Padrick with writings on her website that called him corrupt.

Kevin Padrick was working as a trustee in the bankruptcy case of an Oregon-based real estate firm, Summit Accommodators Inc.

After Summit unraveled, executives with the firm were charged with wire fraud and money laundering over an alleged scheme that saw customers lose millions, according to the FBI.

Cox representing herself (ALWAYS a BAD Move)presented arguments seeking legal protections given to the media on the grounds that, in her view,KEVIN  PADRICK and his company, Obsidian Finance Group, were public figures.

US Media organizations are protected by ”actual malice” legal standard established in a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision, which holds that under the First Amendment, journalists to be liable for defamation must know or have warning signs their inflammatory statements against a public figure are false.

David Ardia, co-director of the University of North Carolina center for media law and policy, said the judge exhibited a “cramped and myopic” view of journalism in his ruling against Cox.

“There is no accepted definition of journalism or who is a journalist,” he said. “Judges have wisely shied away from wading into that debate unless they absolutely have to.”

John Barrows, executive director of the Montana Newspaper Association, told Reuters he found the ruling “troubling” but that his group would review it further.

WHO or WHAT qualifies as a Journalist in the United States?

The Central Intelligence Agency( C.I.A.) and the National Security Agency (N.S.A.) have BOTH said Internet Bloggers are modern day 21st century Journalists.   The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have altered policies to indicate they’re taking blogs seriously, and a growing number of public offices are actively reaching out to the blogosphere. The CIA recently updated its policies on Freedom of Information Act requests to allow bloggers to qualify for special treatment once reserved for old-school reporters. Last August, the NSA issued a directive to its employees to report leaks of classified information to the media — "including Internet BLOGGERS!"

At the  the criminal trial of former White House aide "Scooter" Libby was the first time a federal court had issued press credentials to bloggers. 

Adding more to the issue...

The press, once again, has been expanded" 

 said New York University journalism professor (and blogger) Jay Rosen. 

"It’s not fundamentally different than other moments in earlier eras," Rosen explained. "Radio reporters had to be added to newspaper reporters, which were originally ‘the press.’ Public institutions had to make accommodations for television cameras when they became part of ‘the press.’" While some agencies are changing their policies — in the CIA’s case, they are granting bloggers a waiver on fees for copying the documents it releases to requesters once available only to traditional media.

 

Modern Day Slave Trade

Human trafficking is perpetrated in every country, rich or poor, and is the second largest, fastest growing organized crime in the world. Free the Slaves estimates that there are currently 27 million people toiling as modern day slaves around the globe.

Modern-day slavery looks different in North America than it does in Africa or Asia, the industry is nevertheless alive and thriving in all its forms.
Modern-day slaves are often hard to identify – anyone from a dishwasher in a restaurant, to a domestic or agricultural worker, to an adolescent runaway.  These people are all illegally bought and sold to sinister underworld figures who have total control over the falsely indebted slave.

Many low income workers are brought in from extremely poor foreign countries with promises of work.  When they get the United States their passports and cell phones,  when they have them, are seized, severing them from all outside contact.  Then, with threats of violence, rape, and death the newly indentured slaves are forced into all types of prostitution and sex work.

Yearly revenues of SLAVE trafficking are currently estimated at $5 billion to $9 billion US dollars.    The United States Department of State estimates 1,600,000 to 1,820,000 men, women, and children are sold into SLAVERY each year, approximately 70 percent are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors.   The data also illustrates that the majority of transnational SLAVES are sold into the international sex trade.

Currently, enslavement of young men from middle eastern and African countries are being sold into SLAVERY for the sole purposes of free manual labor.   Back breaking labor exploitation is often hidden behind the facade of guest foreign labor, such as has been the case in Abu Dhabi.  At least 12.3 million people around the world are trapped in forced . Forced labor is often known as debt bondage. The victims are very poor migrants trapped in debt bondage-SLAVERY- such as, sweatshops, farm workers, day laborers, kitchen help, dishwashers, household servants, etc.  They are kept there by violent and illegal tactics and are generally paid nothing.

I am just one person, what can I do to stop modern day Slavery? 

The Somaly Mam Foundation ( www.somaly.org/)  is a nonprofit charity committed to ending modern day slavery in North America and around the world.

Human trafficking, a multi-billion dollar industry, is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. With over two million women and children sold into sexual slavery each year, it is a global crisis that must be stopped. More resources are critically needed to support the rescue and rehabilitation of these young victims.

Co-founded by sexual slavery survivor,  Somaly Mam, the Foundation works to eradicate human trafficking, liberate its victims, and empower survivors so they can create and sustain lives of dignity. The Foundation supports survivor rescue, shelter, and rehabilitation programs globally with a special focus on Southeast Asia, where the trafficking of women and girls, some as young as five, is a widespread practice. The Somaly Mam Foundation also runs awareness and advocacy campaigns in the United States and around the world that shed light on the crime of human trafficking and focus on getting the public and governments involved in the fight to abolish modern day slavery.

If you KNOW a victim  of human trafficking call the toll-free National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available to answer calls in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year.

1-888-3737-888