I have no idea what this is about, but it makes me lol.
Well, here we are again.
I have already spoken at length about how Internet freedom is being slowly eroded and how we badly need Net Neutrality laws to protect it.
But the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has just voted to block Net Neutrality and not only is this a very bad thing but the Pro-Control lobby is using the same flawed logic as before.
Don't worry everyone: he has since had a hair cut.
I find watching the emerging news coverage of Cablegate fascinating because it offers a wonderful opportunity to watch how the powerful slowly start mutating a news story to suit their own ends.
For example Sky News just had a report where they called the latest leak a “gift to terrorists” because it gave a list of vulnerable areas around the globe which, if attacked, could have devastating consequences for America. They even called on a respected terrorism expert, John Gearson, to explain how dangerous the new leak is.
Heck, is it any wonder that Wikileaks is becoming utterly despised around the globe?
Except…it isn’t.
It would take a Ph.D. in History to explain what a massive fail this is.
Man, I wish I was kidding.
Basically a new curriculum has been passed in Texas that has been deliberately constructed to push a distinctly right-wing agenda.
Highlights:
They are removing the slave trade, presumably because it gets in the way of them saying that America always does the right thing.
They aren’t going to talk about how horrible slavery was for the slaves.
Time will be spent talking about the “positive” contributions of the pro-slavery leaders in the civil war.
The civil rights movement will be sidelined, with equal time given to the Alabama Governor George Wallace, thus implying that he was supporting “white civil rights”.
Furthermore, the civil rights movement will be spoken about as if, and I’m quoting now, it created “unrealistic expectations of equal outcomes” among minorities.
Thomas Jefferson will be left out, because he promoted the separation of Church and State.
And it gets worse from there.
