StopTheLie.com News update 11-02-2015
Detroit Public Schools: 93% Not Proficient in Reading; 96% Not Proficient in Math
Source: CNSnews.com
(CNSNews.com) - In the Detroit public school district, 96 percent of eighth graders are not proficient in mathematics and 93 percent are not proficient in reading.
That is according to the results of the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress tests published by the Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics.
Only 4 percent of Detroit public school eighth graders are proficient or better in math and only 7 percent in reading. This is despite the fact that in the 2011-2012 school year—the latest for which the Department of Education has reported the financial data—the Detroit public schools had "total expenditures" of $18,361 per student and "current expenditures" of $13,330 per student.
Read full article at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/detroit-public-schools-93-not-proficient-reading-96-not-proficient
COMMENT: No business could survive by providing such a dismal level of "service" for so much money. Something this absurd can only exist through the magic of government; where "customers" are forced to pay, and then have no choice but accept what they're given.
Seriously, how much worse could it be? Assume the Detroit Public School system disappeared tomorrow and there was no "government" solution to replace it...what would emerge?
Could the new education system(s) possibly produce LESS THAN 8 out of 100 children who were proficient in reading and math?
And even if the brand new system(s) did somehow manage to do worse (let's say, initially, only 5 kids out of 100 became proficient) would anyone in their right mind propose resurrecting the old system? Would anyone say: "You know, if we just confiscate a few hundred million per year, we can get an extra 2 or 3 kids per 100 up to par."
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CDC Scientist Admits Data of Vaccines and Autism Was Trashed
Source: Ben Swann
Just days ago over 100 protesters gathered outside of the Centers for Disease Control offices in Atlanta demanding transparency when it comes to vaccines.
So are these people conspiracy theorists, or did they have good reason to be there?
Read full article at: http://truthinmedia.com/reality-check-cdc-scientist-admits-data-of-vaccines-and-autism-was-trashed/
COMMENT: Here, you're provided a glimpse into how easy it is to create "scientific proof" that perpetuates a lie. The sole purpose of this "proof" (based on intentionally manipulated data), is to discredit and vilify anyone who questions the official narrative.
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Bitcoin: IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BLOCKCHAIN
Source: MoneyAndState.com
--This technology wasn't created as a way to make things a little faster, though certainly that's one of its benefits. The real purpose, the purpose which in hindsight will be hailed as the real innovation, is to remove censorship and central-control from money itself.
Is the internet remembered as the means by which Time Warner more quickly delivered its content to readers? Is the printing press remembered as the means by which the Church more aptly conveyed its prognostications to the devout?
It was the openness of these technologies – the fact that anyone, in any country, could access them, build with them, & experiment with them. One did not have to be 18 to sign up. One did not have to be on a government-approved list. One could write whatever she wished, communicate with whomever she felt relevant.
Read full article at: http://moneyandstate.com/its-all-about-the-blockchain/
COMMENT: Pretty funny...I'd thought of using "It's All About the Blockchain" as the tagline for Bitcoin.TV, but it looks like that phrase is already pretty common. (Might use it anyway :-)
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Previous Week's News 10-26-2015
Putin accuses US of backing terrorism in Middle East
Source: TheGuardian.com
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has launched a stinging attack on US policy in the Middle East, accusing Washington of backing terrorism and playing a "double game".
In a speech on Thursday at the annual gathering of the Valdai Club, a group of Russian and international analysts and politicians, Putin said the US had attempted to use terrorist groups as "a battering ram to overthrow regimes they don't like".
He said: "It's always hard to play a double game – to declare a fight against terrorists but at the same time try to use some of them to move the pieces on the Middle Eastern chessboard in your own favour. There's no need to play with words and split terrorists into moderate and not moderate. I would like to know what the difference is."
Read full article at: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/22/vladimir-putin-accuses-us-backing-terrorism-middle-east
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Monsanto's Roundup may damage liver, kidneys – study
Source: RT.com
Long-term intake of the Monsanto's most popular Roundup herbicide, even in very small amounts lower than permissible in US water, may lead to kidney and liver damage, a new study claims.
The research, conducted by an international group of scientists from the UK, Italy and France, studied the effects of prolonged exposure to small amounts of the Roundup herbicide and one of its main components – glyphosate.
In their study, published in Environmental Health on August 25, the scientists particularly focused on the influence of Monsanto's Roundup on gene expression in the kidneys and liver.
In the new two-year study, which extended the findings from one conducted in 2012, the team added tiny amounts of Roundup to water that was given to rats in doses much smaller than allowed in US drinking water.
--Research conducted in 2014 and published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health linked the use of Monsanto's Roundup to widespread chronic kidney disease that took the form of an epidemic in Sri Lanka. Another study showed that Monsanto agrochemicals may have caused cellular and genetic diseases in Brazilian soybean workers.
Additionally, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer has recently determined that Roundup's glyphosate is 'number one' among carcinogens, "possibly" causing cancer.
Read full article at: https://www.rt.com/usa/313806-monsanto-roundup-kidney-damage/
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CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program (with Video)
Source: TheGuardian.com
"This case is about ensuring that the people behind the torture program are held accountable so history doesn't repeat itself," Steven Watt, one of the ACLU attorneys representing the three ex-detainees, told the Guardian.
"Impunity for torture sends the dangerous message to US and foreign officials that there will be no consequences for future abuses.
"This lawsuit is different from past ones because public government documents now provide exhaustive details on the CIA torture program, and they identify the people who were tortured and how it happened. The government has long abused the 'state secrets' privilege to prevent accountability for torture but at this stage, any claim that the torture of our clients is a state secret would be absurd."
Watch video at: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/cia-torture-survivors-sue-psychologists-aclu
COMMENT: It's always good to actually "see" some of the INNOCENT people who were rounded up by drug lords, sold to the US government, and then tortured as "suspected terrorists."
Watch the 8-minute video above for just one example.
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Cave-digging artist finds inspiration underground (Video)
Source: CBS
For the past 25 years, Ra Paulette has been carving out man-made caves from the sandstone hills of New Mexico, and then sculpting these spaces into works of art he calls wilderness shrines. Lee Cowan has the story of an artist who does his best work underground.
Watch video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcftjJ39BU
COMMENT: A break from the carnage...amazing.
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