Last week witnessed an historic first - the first teachers strike at a charter school.
Actually, 15 charter schools.
A few days later the charter school company folded.
Last year President Macron said: "I believe in democracy but democracy is not the street."
Macron was wrong. For the working class, the street is the only place democracy still exists.
Yellow Vest protests are spreading across Europe, and beyond.
Craig Murray, the former British diplomat, has another blockbuster: the insertion of a British agent in Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign for the Democratic nomination. His post is here:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/12/british-security-service...
If there is no dance, there is not music.
-- Tito Puente
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She sat on the bed in her sister’s room. Linda had left for college a few weeks before, and she had finally been allowed to move into her large lavender room with the ruffled curtains framing the picture windows that looked out onto East Twin Lake. She watched the occasional Sailfish or Sunfish skimming along the glassy surface, carefree as the white geese who would beat their wings backwards floop, floop while they blew along the water hoping for a soft landing.
That’s how editor, Sam Thielman, is describing Congress at NBC News after watching the House Judiciary Committee grilling Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, and questioning him about who was responsible for the media bias against conservatives on the Internet. On Tuesday, Republican ignorance was front and center by virtue of the fact that they head the committee and they are calling the shots. The Democratic brain-trust will be on display in January 2019, if this committee reforms.
The technical illiteracy in both parties is a danger to the nation. Their inquiry strategy is reminiscent a blindfolded man with a long stick trying to land a blow on a pinata that he cannot see. The current Congress simply does not fully grasp the technology enough to see where it is headed in order to ask a competent question. The spectacle is at once humorous and terrifying. Any attempt to regulate or legislate the technologies involved is beyond their comprehension. They are clearly unable to judge the meaning and proper context of the information they were handed by their "advisors" in preparation for this hearing.
A couple weeks ago I asked a couple simple questions:
Why, oh why, would we choose the YPG-dominated SDF, over our long time NATO ally?
Why are we militarily containing Turkey?
