'In a global first for England, personality tests will be used to weed out ‘unsuitable’ teaching applicants. England is to become the only country in the world where all teaching hopefuls face psychometric tests designed to reveal whether they have the right personality for a career in the classroom. From 2012, all training applicants will face the psychological assessments that examine whether they have “a blend of empathy, communication and resilience” that is suited for life as a teacher, The TES can reveal. Following a successful pilot, the “diagnostic tool” will be rolled out nationwide from 2012 and will become the latest weapon used by universities to spot students who are not cut out for the chalkface.' Saturday, 08 January 2011 10:50 'Britain’s wind farms almost ground to a halt during the coldest spells in December, it has emerged. As temperatures plunged below zero and demand for electricity soared, figures reveal that most of the country’s 3,000 wind turbines were virtually still, energy experts say. During some of the chilliest weather, they were working at less than one-hundredth of capacity, producing electricity for fewer than 30,000 homes. Saturday, 08 January 2011 10:16 'A new peer-reviewed study finds little, if any, causal relationship between increased fossil fuel CO2 emissions and global warming. This lack of empirical evidence is of no real surprise to skeptics, and probably is the best explanation as to why climate agencies across the world have been forced to fabricate fake global warming. This study also indicates why the IPCC's global climate models consistently fail: the models assume human CO2 causes global warming, which this study finds to be false.' Saturday, 08 January 2011 10:06 'Gov. Pat Quinn and the leaders of both houses of the Illinois General Assembly have agreed on raising the state income tax. If the bill passes, the plan would raise the personal income tax rate from the current 3 percent to 5.25 percent. That’s a 75 percent increase. In real dollars, that would mean if you currently owe $1,000 in taxes, next year you would owe $1,750.' Read more: Illinois Lawmakers Propose 75 Percent Income Tax Hike Saturday, 08 January 2011 08:55 Saturday, 08 January 2011 08:40 'The Irish Government has recently passed the harshest budget in the history of the State with further austerity promised for the next three years and perhaps for decades. Prime Minister Brian Cowen and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan have steered Ireland from the booming prosperity of a Celtic Tiger to a ruined shell of a country where unemployment, poverty, emigration, and despair are proceeding to destroy a once proud, industrious people.' Read more: Irish Leaders Castigated As Greatest Traitors Of All Time Saturday, 08 January 2011 08:38 Saturday, 08 January 2011 08:32 'President Obama knows that agribusiness cannot be trusted with the regulatory powers of government. On the campaign trail in 2007, he promised: We’ll tell ConAgra that it’s not the Department of Agribusiness. It’s the Department of Agriculture. We’re going to put the people’s interests ahead of the special interests. But, starting with his choice for USDA Secretary, the pro-biotech former governor of Iowa,Tom Vilsack, President Obama has let Monsanto,Dupont and the other pesticide and genetic engineering companies know they’ll have plenty of friends and supporters within his administration. President Obama has taken his team of food and farming leaders directly from the biotech companies and their lobbying, research, and philanthropic arms.' Read more: Monsanto Corporation Reigns over Obama Adminstration Saturday, 08 January 2011 08:26 'The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) today issued a startling report that admits 2 in 5 children in America show signs of fluoride poisoning (streaking, spotting or pitting of teeth due to dental fluorosis). The agency concluded that fluoride levels need to be lowered in municipal water supplies, reducing fluoride to 0.7 milligrams per liter (the previous recommended upper limit was 1.2 milligrams per liter). This ends over five decades of the U.S. government recommending up to 1.2 milligrams of mercury in every liter of water. But even the new lower levels are still more than enough to cause serious harm to children, and when mothers make infant formula using fluoridated tap water, they inadvertently poison their infants with hundreds of times the level of fluoride that would normally be found in healthy human breast milk.' Read more: CDC Adjusts Fluoride Poisoning of America's Water Supply to a Lower Level Saturday, 08 January 2011 08:09 Counterfeiting is an effective way to stimulate the economy, but the costs can be quite high. For example, if trillions of dollars in fake cash was injected into the financial system (undetected), we'd probably see the same type of thing that we see when a credit bubble is inflating; asset prices would rise, unemployment would fall, economic activity would increase, and GDP would soar. But when people figured out what was going on, investors would panic, the markets would crash, and the economy would go into a deflationary nosedive. So here's the point: Deregulation allows the banks to create as much bogus money as they want in the form of credit. When a bank issues a loan to someone who can't repay the debt, it's counterfeiting, which is the same as stealing. This is what the banks did in the lead-up to the Market Meltdown of '08; they issued trillions of dollars of mortgages to people who had no job, no income, no collateral, and a bad credit history. The banks abandoned all the standard criteria for issuing loans, so they could increase the quantity of loans they produced. Why? Because bankers get paid on the front-end of the transaction, which means that when they make a loan, they mark it as a credit on their books so they can draw a hefty salary and a fat bonus at the end of the year. In other words, there are powerful incentives for bankers to do the wrong thing, which is why they act the way they do.' Read more: Financial Bubble Alert:: 'Backdoor Bailouts' and The Creation of Bogus MoneyFascism comes to the classroom as would-be teachers face personality tests to decide if they are 'suitable' (conform, sing from the songsheet, do as they are told)
Keiser Report: Monsanto and the Seeds of Evil
Saturday, 8 January 2011
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