Category: Activism

Escaping Education’s Death Valley

Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish — and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational “death valley” we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.

 

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Rand Paul Tax Reform Apple hearing

Rand Paul erupts during a Congress hearing to address and defend Apple’s billions in foreign-stored cash. Rand Paul offends John McCain and Carl Levin Chairman of the Senate Committee

This is a big deal and has to be fixed and worked out. Way to express yourself Rand Paul.

Watch the full congressional hearing here. http://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/offshore-profit-shifting-and-the-us-tax-code_-part-2

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

This is what winning looks like

This is what winning looks like.

The mini video series produced by Vice.com will open your eyes to what progress really hasn’t been made in Afghanistan.  All the innocent lives lost. The consumption and waste. The CIA still dropping off bags of money to Hamid Karzai to re-build what? To get the country straightened out? It’s not happening. Please watch this and pass it along.

Do we mean to fuel the heroin trade?

Here is part 2 -  http://youtu.be/S77dCAZzcLM

This is part 3  – http://youtu.be/C8rRqRoCUsg

I remember when I was a really little kid. I maybe saw wars and people fighting on TV. I knew then, war was one activity I will never participate in.

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Suicides almost double among 50-somethings

Reblogged from The Chart:

Teen suicides often get the most media attention -- tragic stories like that of Canadian teen Amanda Todd remind us that depression is a serious mental health issue for adolescents. But a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows more attention needs to be directed at preventing suicide in adults as well.

Between 1999 and 2010, suicides in the 35-to-64 age group increased 28.4%, according to the…

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Sad!