Society's Child

Teacher for 17 years couldn't read or write

John Corcoran
BBC
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 00:01 UTC

John Corcoran grew up in New Mexico in the US during the 1940s and 50s. One of six siblings, he graduated from high school, went on to university, and became a teacher in the 1960s - a job he held for 17 years. But, as he explains here, he hid an extraordinary secret.

When I was a child I was told by my parents that I was a winner, and for the first six years of my life I believed what my parents had told me.

I was late in talking, but I went off to school with high hopes of learning to read like my sisters, and for the first year things were fine because there weren't many demands on us other than standing in the right line, sitting down, keeping our mouths shut and going to the bathroom on time.

Comment: The fact that children can make it through school, and sometimes college, without knowing how to read is truly a shocking fact. But apparently one can even hold down a successful teaching career without being functionally literate. While the above story is tragic, and inspiring, one has to ask - how the heck does this happen? If those teaching our children don't even know the fundamental basics of learning, what does that say about what's being taught? The future looks bleak indeed.

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Brennan goes off the rails again, lashes out at Trump in Twitter screed

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:50 UTC

In response to a tweet by Donald Trump calling James Comey a "proven LEAKER & LIAR," who "leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted," former Obama CIA director John Brennan fired back - writing that Trump's "kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey."

A kakistocracy is a form of government in which the least qualified person is in power. Brennan could have simply used an Idiocracy reference like a normal person, but then we wouldn't know how smart he is.

Global outrage mounts over Israeli murder of Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:50 UTC

The killing by an Israeli sniper of Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja last Friday at the Gaza fence, even as Murtaja wore a PRESS flak jacket, is drawing international outrage. Not as much outrage as it should draw, to be sure. But it is mounting, and Israel is on the defensive in countless venues.

The New York Times has editorialized sternly about Murtaja's killing, the General Federation of Arab Journalists wants the case prosecuted at the International Criminal Court, and the AFP is reporting that Murtaja was detained and beaten by Hamas just three years ago, in a thorough rebuke to the Israeli government's claim that Murtaja was a Hamas officer.

The Federation of Arab Journalists will ask "the International Criminal Court to prosecute Israel and demand the Palestinian Authority institute a lawsuit at the court" for the shootings of six journalists last Friday, according to a statement from the group. Following "an extraordinary meeting at its Cairo headquarters," the Arab journalists blasted the world's complacence about the attacks.

Starbucks apologizes for calling police on two black men for not ordering anything, men were cuffed and arrested

RT
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:58 UTC

Following accusations of racial profiling, the CEO of Starbucks has promised to personally meet two men arrested at one of the coffee giant's stores for a "face-to-face apology."

Kevin Johnson, who has been in the top job a year, apologized on Sunday after two men were reportedly escorted from a Starbucks café by police in Philadelphia. According to eyewitness Melissa DePino, who filmed the incident at the Spruce Street store last week, Starbucks staff called police on two black men waiting at a table for a friend without ordering.

"The police were called because these men hadn't ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing," she posted online. "All the other white people are wondering why it's never happened to us when we do the same thing."

Comment: Wow, this is bad. While the cops fall back to "we were just doing our job," they really shouldn't have been called in the first place. This is going to be a PR nightmare for Starbucks.

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UK supermarket to introduce 'touch-free' packaging for those "scared of touching raw meat"

Jessica Green
Daily Mail
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 18:28 UTC

Sainsbury’s will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having to touch them

A supermarket is to introduce touch-free packaging to help millennials who are afraid to handle raw meat.

Sainsbury's will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having touch them.

The supermarket chain said the plastic pouches were developed after consumers under the age of 35 said they didn't like to handle uncooked meat.

Sainsbury's will be bringing in pouches that allows customers to place chicken pieces straight into a frying pan without having touch them

Any prospect of having to be in contact with the raw produce left the millennials with high levels of anxiety, the store's survey showed.

Comment: The problem of contamination has little to do with the handling of the food and more to do with the abhorrent conditions and origins involved in factory farming.

As to the fear of touching raw meat, these people are slowly becoming so removed from reality that they're hardly able to function within it anymore. And millennial do appear to be at the forefront of this breakdown, but it certainly is not limited to them.

Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Millennial Syndrome: Why they gotta be like that?

'Growing anger': High turnout at Tokyo protest demanding Prime Minister Abe resign

Sputnik
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:44 UTC

On Saturday, tens of thousands gathered in front of the National Diet Building in central Tokyo to protest growing scandals surrounding the administration of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

"We hold a sense of crisis that the falsifying and hiding of public documents means nothing less than the destruction of our nation and democracy," said economist Masaru Kaneko to a crowd of some 30,000 people in front of the Diet building.

Syrian football fans unfurl banner slamming US air strikes - 'F*ck Trump'

Sputnik
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:38 UTC

After US-led coalition members hit Syria with over 100 missiles last Friday, the fans from the Syrian Tishreen Football Club pulled no punches while expressing their attitude toward the US administration's recent actions.

The fans unfolded a banner reading "F**ck Trump" in a message to Washington calling on it to stop killing the Syrian people on the pretext of establishing "peace."

Donald Trump ordered on Friday a massive missile strike against Syrian targets in response to the alleged chemical attack in the city of Douma in the Damascus suburb. Jointly with the United Kingdom and France, the United States had launched 103 missiles, 71 of which were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems. According to the Syrian authorities, which have repeatedly said that they had destroyed their chemical weapons stockpiles, the strikes damaged Syrian infrastructure and left three civilians wounded.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the attack had been conducted illegally.

Six reasons not to take the official Litvinenko poisoning report seriously

William Dunkerley
The Guardian
Fri, 05 Feb 2016 21:33 UTC

Inquiry points the finger at Vladimir Putin and the Russian state, but its findings are biased, flawed and inconsistent

An inquiry into the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko in the heart of London in 2006 has concluded that he was "probably" murdered on the personal orders of Vladimir Putin. This is a troubling accusation.

The report (pdf) said that Litvinenko, who died from radioactive poisoning, was killed by two Russian agents, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun, who were most likely acting on behalf of the Russian FSB secret service.

Comment:

Wait a second, don't WE have chemical weapons too?

Ryan Dawson
Anti-Neocon Report
Sat, 14 Apr 2018 22:12 UTC

"Chemical weapons are bad," spouts warmonger Sebastain Gorka. Yes, yet all the nations that participated in the bombing of Syria the US, UK, France, and Israel each have stockpiles of chemical weapons as well as nuclear weapons. The only one that won't admit to having nukes is Israel. But they were photographed and the whistle blower was jailed. But you see even when Israel undoubtedly built nuclear weapons, and even stole materiel and secrets from the US to do so, everyone is looking away. This way they don't have to sign a non proliferation treaty because they have never admitted to having hundreds of nuclear bombs. Israel has also used chemical weapons. The rained down White Phosphorus or MK77 on practically helpless Gaza during Operation Cast Lead in 2009. They used Depleted Uranium in 1973 and were the first country to do so. The US used both of these weapons in Iraq, particularly in Fallujah.

War is a racket: Syria air strikes instantly add nearly $5 billion to missile-makers' stock value

Jen Wieczner
Fortune
Sun, 15 Apr 2018 21:07 UTC

Raytheon stock surged Friday morning, after 59 of the company's Tomahawk missiles were used to strike Syria in Donald Trump's first major military operation as President.

Trump ordered the airstrike on the Syrian government Thursday night in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier this week that killed as many as 100 people. The U.S. blamed the attack on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Comment: Just a pretext. The Douma "chemical weapon attack" was a fake.

The Tomahawk missile used in the strike is made by Raytheon, whose stock opened 2.5% higher Friday, adding more than $1 billion to the defense contractor's market capitalization.

Comment:

Is this not a case of, The pot calling the kettle black.

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Society's Child

Teacher for 17 years couldn't read or write

Brennan goes off the rails again, lashes out at Trump in Twitter screed

Global outrage mounts over Israeli murder of Palestinian journalist Yaser Murtaja

Starbucks apologizes for calling police on two black men for not ordering anything, men were cuffed and arrested

UK supermarket to introduce 'touch-free' packaging for those "scared of touching raw meat"

'Growing anger': High turnout at Tokyo protest demanding Prime Minister Abe resign

Syrian football fans unfurl banner slamming US air strikes - 'F*ck Trump'

Six reasons not to take the official Litvinenko poisoning report seriously

Wait a second, don't WE have chemical weapons too?

War is a racket: Syria air strikes instantly add nearly $5 billion to missile-makers' stock value

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