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Why a good Ofsted report can be bad for GCSE results | Education | The Guardian

Health warning: positive Ofsted ratings may damage GCSE results.

This is the shock finding of a study conducted by four universities and two thinktanks which found that parents with children in schools that have received a better-than-expected Ofsted report are much more likely to reduce how much they help their children with their homework. This, in turn, could have a damaging impact on their children’s GCSE results.

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may 2019 by asterisk2a

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One in four teachers say pupils are being forced out to boost school rankings | Education | The Guardian

Survey suggests practice of illegitimately removing children to climb league tables is widespread

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may 2019 by asterisk2a

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Excluded pupils' results 'to be part of league tables' - BBC News

Schools in England will have to stay accountable for pupils they exclude, a government-backed review has said.

It could mean school league table rankings having to include the exam results of pupils who have been excluded and moved elsewhere.

The intention is to stop so-called "off-rolling", where schools remove difficult or low-achieving pupils.

"Exclusion from school should never mean exclusion from education," said review author Edward Timpson.

Education Secretary Damian Hinds, endorsing the report, promised "greater clarity" for schools over the appropriate use of exclusions.

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may 2019 by asterisk2a

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School exclusions ‘put children at risk of gang grooming’ | Education | The Guardian

‘Off-rolling’ difficult students to boost exam results is fuelling gang violence, says children’s czar

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july 2018 by asterisk2a

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Coalition education reforms ‘fuelled inequality in schools’ | Education | The Guardian

Coalition education reforms ‘fuelled inequality in schools’
Study shows best schools take fewer children from deprived backgrounds as a result [...] [ min-maxing league table ranking ] engaged in “aggressive marketing campaigns and ‘cream skimming’ aimed at recruiting particular types of students”. // &! https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/30/academies-teaching-tension-classrooms *! https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/30/market-led-education-system-puts-finances-before-pupils //&! https://www.theguardian.com/education/commentisfree/2018/jun/30/observer-view-on-role-of-schools-generating-inequality-admissions

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july 2018 by asterisk2a

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League tables changes ‘toxic’ for poor white schools - BBC News
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may 2018 by asterisk2a

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Failing academy trust to pull out of 21 schools | Education | The Guardian
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september 2017 by asterisk2a

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UK schools taking desperate measures as funding crisis hits | Education | The Guardian

Parents at St Nicolas’ Church of England school in Taplow, part of Theresa May’s constituency, receiving letters asking for contributions of up to £30 a month to plug a projected £40,000 shortfall next year, or face staff redundancies. [...] Teaching unions say the crisis is the result of years of frozen budgets, further eroded by higher pension, wages and tax costs as well as inflation, with little hope of relief if the Conservatives are re-elected. [...] The cuts come as the National Audit Office has calculated there will be a £3bn real-terms reduction across all schools by 2019.

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‘I wake at 2am worrying about the children’: the headteachers leaving Britain's schools | Education | The Guardian

He told delegates at a recent Westminster Education Forum that “a lot” of headteachers have told him they are considering resigning, after asking why they would want to “oversee the decimation of our schools”. Last month, more than 500 headteachers signed an open letter to Theresa May, demanding that she abandon proposed education cuts, which they said represent up to £3bn in real terms. & https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2017/jun/03/secret-teacher-obsession-league-tables-cheats-children

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Where did all the GCSE pupils go – and why has no one noticed? | Education | The Guardian

[ underachieving taking pupils off roll to boost class/school rating! League Table. unintended consequences! macro over micro + staff shortage, pressure, not money, less money! making the short cut to let underachievers and trouble makers go. classic american school dropout. in childhood already left behind! ] Earlier this month, Sean Harford, Ofsted’s national director, said that from now on inspectors should question headteachers during inspections when large numbers of students have left. And Amanda Spielman, the chief inspector, described “off-rolling”, alongside other results-boosting methods, as a scandal.

Our investigation shows that even though the inspectorate recognised this as a national problem going back to 2010, it has not done anything about it.

The research organisation Education Datalab recently published reports on pupils leaving their secondary schools, following an investigation by Education Guardian in 2014. It raised concerns that 20,000 pupils were being lost to state education altogether, with no one knowing where they had gone. The reports do not show whether pupils were encouraged to move or left of their own volition. Those who had disappeared were mostly lower achievers.

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march 2017 by asterisk2a

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Bahrain's young people mark fifth anniversary of Arab spring | World news | The Guardian
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february 2016 by asterisk2a

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NATO says won't send ground troops to fight IS: report | Reuters

via https://redd.it/3vss9j - Stoltenberg stressed that the conflict was not a war between the West and the Islamic world, but rather against "extremism and terrorism". "Muslims are on the front line in this war. Most victims are Muslims, and most of those who fight against the IS are Muslims. We can not carry on this struggle for them," he said. //&! UK and USA public not having the appetite for boots on the ground ... The chancellor, George Osborne, touches on the fight against Isis in Syria during an event for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Replying to whether he thinks deploying British and US troops in Syria is an answer he says: “No I don’t.” He adds that “there is absolutely no appetite for that” from either country’s political system - bit.ly/1m7zEeS - Osborne/Western analysis suggests boots on the ground will radicalise further people ... //&! After Paris and Beirut and San Bernardino, It’s Time to Rein in Saudi Arabia - redd.it/3vqlyc

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Yemen conflict: Governor of Aden killed in Islamic State attack - BBC News

Islamic State militants say they are responsible for a blast that killed the governor of Yemen's port city of Aden. Jaafar Mohammed Saad and several aides died when their convoy was hit. IS says it detonated a car laden with explosives as he drove by. The group has established a presence in Yemen since its civil war broke out. It is opposed to the government and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have seized much of the country, including the capital Sanaa. Earlier this year, Aden was recaptured by government troops backed by a Saudi-led coalition.

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Saudi Arabia 'destabilising Arab world', German intelligence warns - Telegraph

[ who are they supporting officially and inofficially? - are they supporting ISIS and Syrian Rebel Forces same time? ] We wrote in June that Saudi "has also become a menace to its neighbours and itself." Germany's BND now agrees //&! German Vice Chancellor Gabriel:'Saudi Arabia must stop financing Wahabi Mosques throughout the world. They are a breeding ground of Terrorism. In Germany many extremists considered dangerous persons emerge from these communities. I say to them that the time of looking the other way is over.' - https://redd.it/3vnkd3 &! https://redd.it/3vqvgd

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Die Syrien-Falle | Dokumentation von Hubert Seipel - YouTube

[ IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN will be viewed as foreplay, child's play, skirmish. This type of civil war wil last at least another 10 years (said GER military intel chief) ... maybe ... some say military solution impossible, says Kofi Annan ] Interview w Assad. - 2012/2013 - Turkey wants protection from Assads Scud missiles. 1 year before the exorbitant rise of ISIS mid 2014 into 2015. Russia likes to keep Addad regieme in Syria, now fighting ISIS and Free Syrian Army aka the rebel group/coalition ( bit.ly/1jGhVJx ) to help Assad. Turkey wants to get rid of Assad. UN resolution unlikely as Russia will veto everything west (no future for Assad) proposes. // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War // that doesn't include Iraq forces; PKK, Pershmerga, Iraq Army, [yazidi, christians) - vs ISIS. //& Add Egypt and Lybia still unstable and no democracy since the Arab Spring. // Even Iran joins Russia propaganda that Turkey supports ISIS; Propaganda War.

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Iran ready to present proof on ISIS oil trade to Turkey: Official : worldnews

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Syria conflict: German MPs vote for anti-IS military mission - BBC News

France also invoked an EU Treaty clause on mutual defence - Article 42.7 - to get help from its EU partners in the fight against IS. [...] Germany will boost to 150 its 100-strong contingent of troops in northern Iraq. They are helping to train Kurdish Peshmerga forces who are fighting IS. Germany is also providing arms and ammunition for them. //&! Ursula von der Leyen ueber Abgruende - on.fb.me/1N0LUGM "Ausbreitung verhindern." & youtu.be/YeDIcK049hA 'Wird Aufklaerungs teil uebernehmen.' & 'Kein richtiger plan. [...] kein EXIT plan.' - bit.ly/1N0Vbyz //&! bit.ly/1OMEI1z &! on.fb.me/1TLVLmk - Kein Ziel, Kein Kommando, Kein Exit Plan, Kein UN mandat weil Russia veto's shit.

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Bundesregierung geht auf Distanz zum Bundesnachrichtendienst - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Die öffentliche Kritik des BND an der saudischen Außenpolitik sorgt für einen Eklat: Die Bundesregierung distanziert sich ungewohnt deutlich von der Einschätzung des Nachrichtendiensts. Intern fürchtet man eine Eiszeit mit Riad.

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december 2015 by asterisk2a

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Journalist and Former Hostage - Nicolas Hénin by WSHardtalk

Jihad Academy: The Rise of Islamic State Hardcover (2015) by Nicolas Hénin // ISIS is a scam. // ISIS is the symptom. The west won't defeat ISIS if it doesn't take away the fuel that feeds it; authoritarianism, violence (oppression), sectarianism. // Bringing democracy to the world? (aka Iraq War) // Current environment (complex) best breeding ground for radicalisation. // West was not listing to the Syrian people after the revolution. //

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november 2015 by asterisk2a

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Why Cameron's case for Syria airstrikes is highly contentious | Politics | The Guardian

There is no clear strategy, objective or endgame, with one US commander describing the campaign in Syria and Iraq as a stalemate //&! bit.ly/1MT50MH - He claims the terror group has an external operations group dedicated to causing mass casualty attacks around the world. He insists the strikes against Isis will be part of a comprehensive political and diplomatic plan to deny the group space and create the circumstances for an end to the civil war in Syria. The aim, he says, must be to close down ungoverned space. //&! bit.ly/1LBsvrP &! bbc.in/1Nv0ZDO

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november 2015 by asterisk2a

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WikiLeaks: Saudis Largest Source of Terror Funds - CBS News

(via Wikileaks) Hillary (in private): Saudi Arabia is the largest source of terrorist funding (archive)

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november 2015 by asterisk2a

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Syria civil war: Russian airstrikes force 35,000 to flee - YouTube

Understanding the syrian crisis in 5 minutes - youtube.com/watch?v=-l44KUQHoVY - goes back to arab spring // is cold war, holy war, cicil war. is the culmination of middle east politics/geopolitics by the west in the making for decades. going back to ww2.

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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Russland und Syrien: Das Ende der alten Weltordnung - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Viel wichtiger aber ist, nach vorne zu schauen. Die alten Sicherheitsstrukturen aus dem vergangenen Jahrhundert taugen nicht mehr. Nach dem Ende des ersten Kalten Krieges haben die Regierungen versäumt, sie weiterzuentwickeln und sich naiv auf der Friedensdividende ausgeruht. Der Krieg in der Ukraine und das russische Abenteuer in Syrien sind die Folge dieses Versagens. Die eigene Sicherheit oder Einflusssphäre auf Kosten anderer erhöhen zu wollen, führt nicht zu mehr, sondern zu weniger Sicherheit und Stabilität. Europa braucht deshalb neue Absprachen über Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit. Europa braucht ein neues Helsinki.

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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Jürgen Klopp is a modernising force in the mould of Arsène Wenger | Barney Ronay | Football | The Guardian

Welcome, Jürgen! Just don’t bother talking to the natives. Because the fact is for all its commercial triumphs the Premier League remains robustly anti-intellectual, a product with plenty of sound and fury but little in the way of innovation. No significant tactical model has ever emerged here, no way of playing beyond the successfully reeled-in power football of the years 2005-2011. Not that Klopp comes across as a notable pointy-head. An article by James Corbett in the Blizzard magazine recently identified him as part of a group of coaches from the south-west of Germany with “a highly innovative philosophy” based on the ideas of one Helmut Gross, a man who once spent so long holed up with Ralf Rangnick watching Sacchi videos the VCR machine wore out. [...] Either way somebody take some notes. Give him time. Let’s not blow this one, eh? &! bit.ly/1L3QO4U "Soccer is about the fans. We have to entertain them." &! bit.ly/1R2aGa7 missed in translation "Ordinary one." &! bit.ly/1jTFgYY

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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UK accuses Russia over Syria strikes - BBC News

Now after no international resolution (alliance against ISIS) after UN meeting in NY ... its now war of words, the war of propaganda machinery! Russia vs The West.

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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Afghan air strike: Kunduz MSF clinic workers killed - BBC News

western world (politicians and vast majority of public) is not comfortable with boots on the ground (since WMD's/Iraq War catastrophe). so it is in the name of war on terror, the drone strikes, with minimal intelligence, making it a hit and miss. = collateral damage. no wonder why uneducated illiterate people join radicalist and extremist movement (funded and stocked w weapons by Arab League through the backdoors) against the west and other religious minorities in the middle east and other governments that hold local power ... when the west drone strike/bombs their village and family to smithereens ... the west wth no accountability. no transparency. bordering war crime. bordering carpet bombing. // US military apologises for bombing - Afghan President's Office - bit.ly/1VufFa8 &! bit.ly/1VuIC5E &! MFS calls it a war crime - bit.ly/1j8hwQO &! bit.ly/1PXynQt Obama promises internal investigation.

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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#RefugeeCrisis: What The Media Is Hiding, Help #SyrianRefugees Go Home - YouTube

youtu.be/NXSnm4H5DiU - Syrian Girl Blows The Lid Off The Refugee Crisis

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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VIDEO: ‘Days of Revolt’ With Chris Hedges: ISIS, the New Israel - Truthdig

https://youtu.be/Go5vYcrwlOM // Hedges begins by pointing out how the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, responsible for “carving up the Middle East and turning countries into protectorates,” has been changed only twice—once with the Israeli independence and now with Islamic State. As Hedges put it, the tactics used to redraw the map in the Middle East are both effective and familiar, including the “use of foreign money, use of foreign fighters, tactics of ethnic cleansing and terrorism and this mythical vision—in the case of Israel, the recreation of Judea and Sumeria from the Bible, and in the case of ISIS, the recreation of the seventh-century caliphate.” Alnasseri agrees, opening his response with the observation that “to understand the pheonomenon of ISIS, we need to contextualize it within the setbacks and counter-revolution against the Arab revolutions.“ [...] 'Iraq can not be re-united.'

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october 2015 by asterisk2a

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UK and Saudi Arabia 'in secret deal' over human rights council place | UK news | The Guardian

Britain conducted secret vote-trading deals with Saudi Arabia to ensure both states were elected to the UN human rights council (UNHRC), according to leaked diplomatic cables.

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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Syria crisis: Russia begins air strikes against Assad foes - BBC News

Russia has begun carrying out air strikes in Syria against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow has confirmed. The strikes reportedly came in the rebel-controlled area of Hama province. Washington was informed in advance that they were about to take place. Syria's civil war has raged for four years, with armed groups - some of them Islamist, including the Islamic State (IS) group - fighting to overthrow the government. The US and its allies have insisted that President Assad should leave office, while Russia has backed its ally remaining in power. The latest developments came amid reports that President Assad had formally requested Russian military support. //&! The risk of accidental clash is real, but Russia’s first airstrikes signal the desire to be treated as a global player and to protect the Syrian state - bit.ly/1N4Qu9C //&! Information War is ON! //&! Russia hit US-supported rebel camp? - bit.ly/1Lm1S0u

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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What Pisses Me Off About The European Migrant Crisis - YouTube

// germany has already bad record of integration and assimilation of 1st and 2nd gen of immigration/migrants into western society at large. thus the hotspots of trouble, deprivation, youth unemployment (NEET), crime, anti-social behaviour, ... in suburbs, outer city boroughs, ... not just Germany, also France (banlieues). Niall Ferguson talked about it as a big big big fucking problem! //&! And Schauble even asks his departments to make savings (public and social services and investment cuts) to pay for cost. - bit.ly/1WeQHZf //&! The Death of Germany | European Migrant Crisis - youtu.be/-30gF6WB-GY ... "you can judge ideology" - Sharia Law. Islamic Radicalism. Honor Killing. Quran. vs western values.

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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Egon Krenz: der Kalte Krieg war nie zu Ende by Sputnik Deutschland

Europa ohne Russland geht nicht. USA sieht nicht gern das Europa/Deutschland gut mit Russland sind. [...] Die idee des kommunismus ist nicht tod zu kriegen. [...] Der kapitalismus kann nicht das letzte wort gehabt haben. [...] AIIB & BRIC (+South Africa) - ohne USA, ohne EU (ja nicht alle, Germany in AIIB)! // TTIP und co. schliesst BRIC aus. Punkt!!! USA will sich wirtschafts and und politische macht sichern mit TTIP und TPP before es zu spaet ist. // battle of ideas. battle to capture parts of new world, global trade and economy, future generations (emerging middle class).

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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ECFR's World in 30 Minutes: Refugee Crisis by ECFR

&! EU East - West divide on refugee crisis? - bit.ly/1iyR1Ut //&! [Instability in Libya contributes to the migration crisis - bit.ly/1Qs2Upt - also mentions Lybia - bit.ly/1NG5cCq "crisis everywhere" europe is engulfed and involed in their own crises: sovereign debt, refugees, brexit, grexit, Brussels, political crisis, low growth (deflation fear) ... // &! bit.ly/1OJNA9n - The 550 million dollar program launched last year to train moderate Syrian rebel forces did not bring any results. According to the White House "he [ POTUS] had never believed in the strategy, anyway". &! bit.ly/1JjNy0O &! bit.ly/1QG0bti - 'Europe is responsible for the current refugee crisis, because it supported the West’s aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East. Such a statement was made by Syrian President Bashar Assad in an interview with Russian media outlets.' // [ EU seems 2be fucked bc only NATO soldiers on ground will work. who will bite bullet first? & also HAVE TO cooperate w Assad-Regime. ]

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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Inside Bayern Munich: Business of Sport Special - YouTube

brand awareness advertising/marketing (mass eyeballs.pageviews) - vs - user experience, engagement, empowerment, remix use, word of mouth, shared experience, sharing, social media, customer acquisition, net promoter score, )

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september 2015 by asterisk2a

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Foreign Affairs Expert Leslie Gelb: Masters in Business (Audio) by Bloomberg View | Free Listening on SoundCloud

Leslie Gelb, wrote Pentagon Papers. Which Ellsberg leaked (Whistleblower) - bit.ly/1Lgsq2D // Back in the days, national interests and force was expressed in war and seldomly in economic embargos (Napoleon tried that against British Empire) and there were economic skirmishes (oil/diesel, rubber) in the run-up to WW2 and the first couple of months before USA officially entered WW2. TODAY! National interests are only expressed in economic terms with trade embargoes, tariffs, trade deals and protectionism. Only little military skirmishes here and there and when, the nation tries to hide them from the publics eye (through rouge nations for hire army/special forces, a nations secret services supplying the underground arms trade that doesn't show up on its balance sheet or one of their nations manufacturers. West excluded Russia from recent G8 summit in Munich and made it G7. Russia/Europe/USA playing game of chicken of economic escalation. Or using corporate actors & new cyber war!

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august 2015 by asterisk2a

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Silicon Valley is Lying to You (by GQ)

We're forever thankful to Silicon Valley for giving us the iPhone, omnipotent search engines, and swipe-simple hookups. But now that America's most vaunted industry has also become its most self-satisfied, Silicon Valley is veering toward fall-of-Rome territory. Which is why it needs to blow up these seven myths about itself before it's too late // Myth #1: Silicon Valley Is the Universe's Only True Meritocracy. Myth #2: Silicon Valley Is Bringing Us Closer Together. What new human contact these start-ups actually do foster is barely human contact at all—everything is mediated through an algorithm, a button, a swipe, or a GPS beacon. Myth #3: Younger Is Smarter, Safer, and Inarguably Better. Myth #4: School Is for Suckers, Just Drop Out [ Income disparaty between high school degree and college degree will widen further during the Industrial Revolution 2.0. Not everybody can be lucky, creating a unicorn while driving Uber +3 days a week ].

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may 2015 by asterisk2a

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The Student Debt Sentence: The British Election - YouTube

'babyboomers stole their children's future' // professors and Staff on Zeitarbeit, Leiharbeit, Contracts, and Zero Hour Contracts

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may 2015 by asterisk2a

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Halle Tecco on Twitter: "Fantastic interview about race in silicon valley with @tristanwalker @tonygauda @km http://t.co/MLMxFi6VCC"

nurture over nature, but Fox news and those (few lucky) laughing about white trailer trash think (of themselves) otherwise

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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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Robert Reich (Why We're All Becoming Independent Contractors)

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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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(10) Gary Vaynerchuk

frothy times attract not the right actors!

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april 2015 by asterisk2a

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Arab League agrees to create joint military force - BBC News
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march 2015 by asterisk2a

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Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. What happens now concerns us all » The Spectator

You might think of Swedes as upright social democrats, who have never let worries of appearing tedious stand in the way of their righteousness. But that has never been wholly true, and is certainly not true when there is money at stake. [...] No less a figure than His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf himself hauled Wallström in at the weekend to tell her that he wanted a compromise. Saudi Arabia has successfully turned criticism of its brutal version of Islam into an attack on all Muslims, regardless of whether they are Wahhabis or not, and Wallström and her colleagues are clearly unnerved by accusations of Islamophobia. The signs are that she will fold under the pressure, particularly when the rest of liberal Europe shows no interest in supporting her. [...] Finally, and most revealingly in my opinion, the non-affair shows us that the rights of women always come last. [...] an embarrassed and hugely revealing silence. // via http://redd.it/30el3h

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march 2015 by asterisk2a

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Why Many Smart, Low-Income Students Don't Apply to Elite Schools | Hacker News

- see also comments ie Documentary "Underwater Dreams" youtu.be/2FqCO5clKR0

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march 2015 by asterisk2a

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Don't Be Awful: Amanda Bradford - YouTube

With what dating app do you want to associate yourself and your personal and professional brand!? Tinder? OkCupid? Match.com? Grindr? --- http://www.theleagueapp.co/ --- http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/world/547395/the-league-a-dating-app-for-people-who-hate-dating-apps.html &! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-league-dating-app-promises-classy-courting-for-harvard-hotties-and-beautiful-billionaires-9721391.html &! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11083461/Dating-app-for-the-super-picky-to-launch.html

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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The War Nerd: Islamic State and American Narcissism | PandoDaily

The people who fight for Islamic State are not victims. Well, we’re all victims, if you want; we’re all gonna die, we’re all confused, we all had weird childhoods…but the groups that make up Islamic State are some of the most privileged, arrogant, and unsympathetic demographics in the entire Muslim world. There are two groups involved in Islamic State: First, the core strength, the Sunni Arabs in Iraq; second, the much-hyped “foreign fighters” from outside the Iraq/Syria war zone. [...] That’s what Islamic State’s Iraqi roots are: Bitter, defeated Sunni using religion as a handy pretext to win back control of the country they consider theirs, and theirs alone. Only fools like Moyers and de Vega seriously imagine that gang has anything to do with preserving the honor of Islam.

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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Obama sends Congress draft war authorization that says Islamic State ‘poses grave threat’ - The Washington Post

and here comes another military intervention, ... and another, and another, ... // via http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2vj9g9/obama_sends_congress_draft_war_authorization_that/ &! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-31425384 "Mr Obama said this did not signal an "endless war"." [He wouldn't mention it if it weren't.] He said he was "convinced that the United States should not get dragged back into another prolonged ground war in the Middle East" but said fighting IS would take "some time". [ should we count the days till X plants a false flag item that puts Congress behind Obama? ]

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february 2015 by asterisk2a

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The American fear-mongering machine is about to scare us back into war again | Trevor Timm | Comment is free | theguardian.com

[ Intelligence Agencies missed the rise of the splinter group (ISIS) of al-Qaida !!?? as local threat to security & stability? ] The American fear-mongering machine is about to scare us back into war again Thanks to a say-anything media, hawkish politicians and an Orwellian administration, a war-weary public is terrified. Are there any red lines anymore – or just launch buttons?

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november 2014 by asterisk2a

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Turkey's Reluctance to Help Against ISIS Should Be a Red Flag | Ivan Eland

https://www.facebook.com/Michael.Brant.Shermer/posts/10152313683266386 - “One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar & taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of sharia" & https://www.facebook.com/naomi.wolf.author/posts/10152754085194476 "geopolitical events reveal multiple agendas, some apparently contradictory -- that it is rarely black hat/white hat as in the spokespeople's scripts to the press?"

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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IS Islamischer Staat: Steinmeier in Saudi-Arabien - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Die autoritären Herrscher verfolgen vor allem eigene Ziele.

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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Rüstungsexporte: Regierung liefert an Saudi-Arabien und Katar - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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october 2014 by asterisk2a

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Live chart: Ivy League grades - YouTube
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september 2014 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Islamic State crisis: Obama threatens action in Syria

military offensive. +++ http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/is-in-syrien-und-irak-us-praesident-obama-will-luftangriffe-ausweiten-a-990962.html +++ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29166372 - Arab states back US push against Islamic state +++ http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/is-islamischer-staat-in-syrien-irak-obama-schmiedet-allianz-a-990963.html "Obama kündigte einen langen Kampf an; einen, der seine Präsidentschaft wohl überdauern werde: "Es braucht Zeit, um ein Krebsgeschwür wie den IS zu eliminieren."" +++ http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/obama-luecken-in-der-strategie-gegen-is-islamischer-staat-a-990988.html +++ Conversation: Containing vs. Destroying the Islamic State - http://youtu.be/h4T09XKbUcA "details unknown" + "Allies have self-serving interests" + "may turn into war of containment" !!!

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september 2014 by asterisk2a

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BBC News - Iraq crisis: Obama to set out 'US offensive against IS'

US President Barack Obama is to set out his "game plan" against Islamic State militants in a speech on Wednesday. Mr Obama, who has been criticised for failing to outline a strategy, told NBC TV the US would degrade IS, shrink their territory and "defeat them". US jets bombed IS targets in western Iraq for the first time on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Arab League has vowed to take "all necessary measures" against IS, which has seized a huge amount of territory from Iraq and Syria. The League gave its backing to a Security Council resolution passed last month calling on member states to stem the flow of weapons and money to extremists in Iraq and Syria. BBC World Service Middle East editor Sebastian Usher says the Arab League's message will hearten Mr Obama, but the question now is whether its members will fully act on it, and act together rather than against each other. [...] Mr Obama went on: "On Wednesday, I'll make a speech and describe what our game plan's going to be going forward."

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september 2014 by asterisk2a

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Kara Swisher: Tech's Most Powerful Snoop -- NYMag

“These people were very accessible,” Swisher recalls of a younger Bezos and his cohort, “and you met them before they were who they are now. When people get rich, people lick them up and down all day, so some of them morph into thinking that being licked up and down all day is their reality and that everything that comes out of their mouths are golden nuggets. Everyone starts to rewrite history, but if you knew them, and have some historical knowledge …” [ the Ass Hole effect - As people get richer, they are more likely to feel entitled, to exploit others, and to cheat. http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/2afgt4/the_ahole_effect_what_wealth_does_to_the_brain/ - http://www.alternet.org/culture/ahole-effect-what-wealth-does-brain ] / + http://valleywag.gawker.com/even-tech-bloggers-hate-themselves-1605371279 / "“She’s one of these CEOs who likes to be lauded,” “Personally, I think she’s remarkable. She’s really accomplished and smart, but she’s not perfect, [as is everyone]"

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july 2014 by asterisk2a

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