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Aging Geeky Oligarch Front and Center in Education Takeover
Bill Gates and the Corporatization of American “Public” Schools
Excerpt from Tech Rights:
Summary: Bill Gates continues to engage in class war by creating a penal system that maximises detention while giving poor people dependence on giant food monopolies, both of which he profits from
THE Gates Foundation‘s destructive path is not news. A lot who are sceptical of corporate media have been paying attention to how the Gates Foundation bribes a lot of writers (even bloggers) to bamboozle those without critical skills, so we live in a world where a lot of people think that GMO is about ending hunger and that Bill Gates is a charitable man (they don’t know he invests in GMO, which is essentially a patent monopoly on nature).
“He just keeps getting richer at a pace of about 10% per year”
Bill Gates has been working with PR magnates for well over three decades, so he knows how to play this game. He would pose for photos to appear in newspapers, usually with black kids or poor kids (ultimate PR hit in local/national media), but won’t even paint a bridge [1, 2] or associate himself with tasks he never did (he grew up in a super-affluent family with many helpers). He would fly a private jet to very poor areas, contributing little more than carbon and a dangerous impression that the world’s plutocrats are those who will save it (famous mythology that serves power). Let’s look at some recent figures. The super rich people are getting richer and richer ($92 billion richer in the past year for the richest 0.000000006% – yes, that’s in 2014 alone!) while using their corporate press (bribed or subsidised) to fool or scam the public. Here is how much money Gates has made last year:
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Seattle Education posts on Bill Gates:
Bill Gates in Washington State: Mayoral Control and Charter Schools
Bill Gates: An Infographic
Bill Gates funded the Seattle Times “Education Lab”
From Mercedes Schneider’s blog deutsch29:
- Video: Bill Gates, Expert On All That Matters on December 21, 2014
- Obama’s USDOE: Appointed to Privatize. Period. on November 23, 2014
- Smarter Balanced: Lacking Smarts; Precariously Balanced on November 21, 2014
- Evaluating Gates via His Microsoft Failure on September 30, 2014
- Gates Grant to “Further Hardwire the Common Core Curriculum” ?? on September 1, 2014
- Seattle Times’ Gates-funded Education Lab Blog Experiment on August 24, 2014
- Transcript of Gates’ March 2014 Washington Post Interview on June 21, 2014
- College Dropout Bill Gates, Who Spends Millions on Harvard, Gets Honorary Doctorate on May 13, 2014
- Video: Bill Gates “Explains” Common Core on April 27, 2014
- Bill Gates’ Sobering 2009 Speech to Legislators on March 20, 2014
- Gates Dined on March 13, 2014, with 80 Senators on March 17, 2014
- Gates and Duncan and Their Common Core “Freedom” Charade on March 16, 2014
- The Gates Grant Addiction on February 24, 2014
- Gates Is Funding USDOE Conferences and “Innovations” on January 31, 2014
- Bill Gates Must Be Worried About Common Core Survival on October 5, 2013
- Gates Money and Common Core– Part VI on October 5, 2013
- Deasy, Apple, Pearson, and Gates: A Post Worth Hacking Into on October 1, 2013
- Gates Money and Common Core– Part V on September 25, 2013
- Gates Money and Common Core– Part IV on September 17, 2013
- Gates Money and Common Core: Part II on September 3, 2013
- A Brief Audit of Bill Gates’ Common Core Spending on August 27, 2013
- Merrow and Gates Money? Et tu, John? on September 12, 2013
- Gates Money and Common Core– Part III on September 11, 2013
what about the BS of critical race “theory”?!?!?!?!!