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All of this is being sold as something good for students when in fact
it is a Dickensian abhorrence that can only be envisioned as something
beneficial by those who seek to exploit children while denying them a
truly meaningful and contemplative education.
This is where we are today when it comes to ‘schooling under
capitalism’. It has nothing to do with education and everything to do with
boosting profits for the wealth vultures and flocks for the sheepherders.
This is faith based capitalism in action – the neo-feudal landscape of
the new childhood where there are those who rule, those who work and
those who pray. The truly disgusting part is that it is all part of the Obama
Department of Education’s plans for the cementing of the new Jim Crow
and acceptance of an escalating inequality that can only worsen under the
current economic oligarchs.
U.S. ‘terror’ and gun laws extended to Somalia
Somalis face New York City trial
By
Mick Kelly
Brooklyn, NY - Three men from Somalia, Ali Yasin Ahmed, Madhi
Hashi and Mohamed Yusuf, appeared in Federal District Court here, Dec.
21, on charges of violating U.S. “material support for terrorism” and gun
laws. What makes this case different from the dozens of U.S. cases
involving Somali men and women in Minnesota, California and other
states is that there is no indication the men are U.S. residents or citizens,
or that they have ever traveled to the U.S.
The conspiracy to provide “material support to a foreign terrorist
organization” stems from their alleged membership in the Somali
resistance organization, al Shabaab. Al Shabaab is an Islamic political
movement that is fighting the U.S.-backed foreign intervention in Somalia.
The gun charge, according to a Dec. 21 press release form the New
York Eastern District U.S. Attorney’s Office, involves the “unlawful use of
machine guns” in Somalia.
The case against the three men rests on the dubious legal theory that
U.S. laws can be applied anywhere in the world. The New York Times