Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
Via Hot Air.
nem a morte nem a vida, nem os anjos nem os principados, nem o presente nem o futuro, nem as potestades, nem a altura, nem o abismo, nem qualquer outra criatura
Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.
Via Hot Air.
«(...) The educational establishment emphasises what ought to work; it doesn't investigate or accept the evidence of what actually works. As one science teacher in the East End told me: 'I'm instructed to put into place initiatives for which there's no educational evidence whatsoever.' Another complained: 'Education is an evangelical movement - evidence has nothing to do with it.' (...) [I]nspectors have been shocked by the low standard of writing, even in good schools - which one of them blamed squarely on poor marking (never to be done in red ink). Many teachers, they noted, had stopped correcting children's grammar, spelling and speech at all, for fear of discouraging them. (...) The Government, as we constantly hear, is on a mission to improve our schools. How? Well, this year, the emphasis is on promoting healthy eating and 'community cohesion'. Indeed, every single school I visited had material on these two topics prominently displayed on their noticeboards. What a pity that some of their pupils were unable to read it. One of the inspectors told me: 'I spend more time looking in children's lunchboxes than testing their literacy.' Someone, she said despairingly, needs to make children sit down, work hard and learn to concentrate. (...)»
«(...) One young man I met in South London, for example, had never crossed the Thames because he couldn't read the bus timetables. (...)»A situação descrita resulta das reformas pseudoprogressistas na educação e abre caminho a dois resultados: barbárie ou tirania - seja sob a forma do governo resultante de uma revolução socialista (com o lumpenproletariat como base) ou a decorrente da imposição da sharia, evolução natural da guerra cultural islâmica contra a enfraquecida estrutura cultural e social do Reino Unido.
[Legenda: sem nada para fazer, bandos de jovens desocupados como este (aqui representado por um modelo) têm poucos divertimentos, pelo deambulam por zonas comerciais.]
"Não cessaremos de apelar à implementação da sharia, (...) continuaremos a fazê-lo até que a sharia seja implementada na Grã-Bretanha e acreditamos que um dia a bandeira do Islão será hasteada bem alto no número 10 de Downing Street." "O Islão é superior e nunca será superado. Jamais encontrareis uma ideologia, uma forma de viver superior à islâmica." "O Islão prevalecerá e, um dia, veremos a sharia implementada na Grã-Bretanha, se tudo correr bem durante a nossa vida, se não na vida das nossas crianças."
«(...) But Jones' personal life has been punctuated with a series of epiphanies, each of which has expanded the focus of his work. In college, he embraced the fight for racial justice. Then he moved to the Bay Area and embraced the struggle for class justice. When he gained interest in environmentalism, he started searching for a way to pull together all three quests in the service of a better future. Now that he believes he has found that unified field theory - one suffused with his rediscovered spirituality - he's out to sell it to the progressive world. "There is a green wave coming, with renewable energy, organic agriculture, cleaner production," he said in an interview. "Our question is, will the green wave lift all boats? That's the moral challenge to the people who are the architects of this new, ecologically sound economy. Will we have eco-equity, or will we have eco-apartheid? (...)»Addendum: como os nomeados para estes peculiares cargos na administração americana, os quais dispensam a audição prévia pelo Senado como premissa para a sua aceitação, parecem merecer o escrutínio público, aqui ficam uma lista de todos eles, até à data, publicada pelo Politico.