Trendy Demons
On November 13,
2013, there was 'Washington Ideas Forum' held at the Newseum Annenberg Theatre
in Washington DC. New York columnist David Brooks was one of the speakers
and his subject was "character challenges of living in a culture of
achievement". He
nailed it. He described to a T, the people that I observe when I watch
C-Span and policy forums, think tank discussions, etc. These are the
people that Alex Jones calls Trendies. That sounds too hip. I'd
prefer to call them Trendy Demons.
I didn't have a name for them but
if I were to give them one, I'd call them modern day Hitler Youth. They
are social change agents - born and bred Technocrats and Actors. They have no heart and no soul.
They have only method, strategy, image and an agenda that was given to them that
they probably don't even understand.
What David Brooks
was describing is the TED culture, the "Caring Aristocracy", the human capital
output of the Ivy League. Though I consider his speech very important and
one that everybody should hear, there was one thing he said that I want to focus
on. I took a clip of it that you can watch
HERE.
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...I'm sure
you've been at do-gooder events - I was at one last week where everybody
is skimming the cream. I was at a table and there was a bunch of
people who "do good" - and they do - do good...but there was somebody
from Teach for America which is so hard to get into, somebody
doing social entrepreneurship where they would pick out the best
entrepreneurs and invest in them; there was
somebody who was picking out star students from Cambodia and
bringing them to universities here;
there was somebody else picking out
the star urban kids.... |
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The entire paragraph of what David Brooks was describing
contains important clues regarding the falseness of our economy and the
propaganda put forth to support it. Brooks bought into the notion of the
"best and brightest" being given opportunities that would otherwise be
unavailable to them. What he is actually describing is the selection of
the Technocrat Army based on what is essentially a lottery system of selection.
The "winners" are the ones who most closely fit the designed illusion of
success - but who also in the backs of their minds, understand that it was luck
on their part that they were selected and that things obtained through luck can
go as easily as they come. As a result, they will be "good soldiers" for
the agenda - the strategic plan.
What agenda?
I've been describing it ad nauseam - Trojan Triangles, a centrally planned
economy with universities as the economic drivers, reinvention of government,
the health care system redesigned for applied genetics research - BIG IDEAS that
don't recognize the boundaries of the nation-state and in fact, cannot exist
within the nation-state with the Ivy League universities being the designers and
the beneficiaries in collusion with the other beneficiaries - corporations - all
at the expense of you - the American people and most importantly, the expense of
your children's future.
To the point - I
zeroed in on this statement by David Brooks:
somebody who was picking out star students from Cambodia and
bringing them to universities here.
Importing
"Star Students"
In the New World
Order of global fascism and state economies modeled after the Communist Chinese
system, the U.S. State Department accommodation is to issue unlimited foreign
student visas. This idea is somehow supposed to make America
"competitive". That's absurd on the face of it. It conflates
corporate interests with country interests. The importation of foreigners
displaces American students and disenfranchises them, it balkanizes our country
and it is a betrayal - treason of the highest order and yet, there is nary a
word spoken against it - except for those Americans who were displaced
mid-career.
The idea is that
only the "best and brightest" from other countries are being imported.
That's a BIG LIE. Even Community Colleges are importing foreign students
such that what is really happening is reverse colonization. It's a
military strategy of occupation carried out through non-military means.
The other
day I was doing some research on "Regional Innovation Clusters" (their
terminology turns my stomach), and I found a report prepared by Dustin Swanger,
President of the Fulton-Montgomery Community College. The title of the
report is: Community Colleges: Partners in Community Development;
Approaches to Developing Our Regions. It's a good report because it gives
a brief history of community colleges and it reveals the part they are playing
in the conversion of our country's economic system to a system like Communist
Chinese system.
Community
Colleges: Partners in Community Development
On page 31 of
that report, he talks about the requirements for Community Colleges to bring
foreign students to the school. If that isn't insult to injury then I
don't know what is. The dirty little secret of course is that this idea
gains the support of local businesses because they get the benefit of free labor
for a couple of months in jobs that are just vocational type jobs anyway.
And I know that for a fact, because I called a local heating and cooling company
to have them come and fix my furnace. They sent a couple of students from
the local community college who pretended to be certified, professionals.
I busted them. I may be old, but I'm not slow. The young ones didn't
know how to fix it so they sent a Russian "student" who was about 40 years old
and didn't speak English - but he did know how to fix my furnace.
The owner of the business was the real certified heating and cooling specialist
- and he was just kicking back taking customer calls and raking in the cash -
charging full price for services provided by free labor.
On page 18 of the
report, notice that he talks about Richard Florida. Richard Florida is a
Harvard graduate who specializes in "social entrepreneurship". He's
the guy who instructs economic developers on how to create trendy environments
for the Trendies to exhibit their trendiness. He's the guy who destroyed
the character of Austin, Texas that Alex Jones' is always talking about.
The idea of
somebody making a living designing a community for shallow, self-centered,
arrogant Hitler Youth would seem unthinkable in the old America but in this
Brave New World, image and illusion are everything. The schools
are training the socialist change agents so they have to create an environment
where they can feel special and superior to everybody else.
In the language
of the central planners of the economy, Richard Florida works in the 'Arts and
Entertainment' cluster. In the technocratic world we are entering,
everything has to be categorized, classified and codified for the computer
systems. Harvard graduate, professor and consultant, Michael Porter
is the Cluster man. I don't know whether to call Porter a Communist
or a Fascist because he is both - but there is no question in my mind that he is
not American in the sense of history, heart and culture. He is the
strategic central planning guru for the economy.
In the
Executive
Summary of a report that was produced for the Council on Competitiveness, it
says the following:
During the
1990s, Americans found a way to do what seemed no longer possible — grow
the economy, create jobs, and increase the standard of living, without
driving up inflation. Much of the credit goes to the nation’s ability to
develop and commercialize new technology. The result: one of the most robust
periods of economic expansion and prosperity of the past century.
What that tells
you is that Porter essentially came to power as one of the lead Communists
during the Clinton Administration - "reinvention of government" along with
his comrades, Elaine "End of Government as We've Known It" Kamarck, Ira
Magaziner and other Communists. In the polite society of academia they are
called "Thought Leaders". The
Economic Development Administration (U.S. Government Agency in the
Department of Commerce) is the governmental instrument through which they
operate.
A cluster study
is the study of the businesses in an area so that their supply chains can be
defined. The supply chain includes inputs to the businesses (i.e.
products, labor and services) and the outputs for each step in the process.
In other words - input-output tables for each business within a region.
The use of the
study is to identify the main business activities in an area in order to
concentrate government support and money for those businesses - and their supply
chain. People? Fa' get about it... they are just inputs
to business and outputs from academic institutions. This "strategic
plan" is all about efficiency and maximum profit for corporations - socializing
costs and maximum profits for corporations.
There is a
website - clustermapping.us where you can hear
Mr. Cluster **** himself talk about
the cluster mapping project and output. When you look at the map,
it's not a stretch to see that the
America 2050 Megaregions
is the projection of population based on the idea of the cluster maps for
industry - the concentrations of business and their supply chains.
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description of the Cascadia Region description, "high tech-competencies,
commitment to environmental sustainability, and creative clusters
in film, music and green building.
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Creative
Clusters
The collective
central planning of the economy, rather obviously includes the schools as
providers of the labor input for the supply chains. The "redesign of the
schools" with hands-on vocational training is part of the central
plan.
The curricula for the schools have been designed
around the concept of education clusters corresponding to the business clusters.
Work-Based
Learning
In 1990, the U.S.
Labor Department initiated a project to redesign the American system of
education. Yup... that's right. The Labor Department redesigned the
American system of education. A project was initiated called the
Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS). The
objective was to define all of the jobs and career paths, the educational and
skill requirements for them, and ultimately to integrate "workplace skills" into
education in conjunction with "work-based learning" - vocational on-the-job
training for credit through the schools.
That's the reason
that Clusters for Education and Clusters for Economic Development correspond.
They are part of the same project of redesigning school and work from the
American system to a fascist/communist system of labor management.
Work-Based Learning -
Education Clusters
Secretary's Commission on
Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) - compilation of SCANS
Reports
Agriculture and Health Sciences Clusters
It took me a
while to put this together, and actually, it wasn't until I watched the video on
the
Swedish Food Valley Model that I realized, the Economic Developers in Idaho
were building a "food valley" here. Idaho has always been an
agricultural state but I don't believe that when I was growing up, it was a
dairy state. But it seems to have become so and the Economic Developers
are actively recruiting food and dairy related businesses for clustered
development of industrial food producers in South Central Idaho.
One of the new
businesses in the cluster, a yogurt company, has a "Star Student" from Turkey as
the CEO. Through the financial assistance of the Economic Development
agencies in New York and Idaho, the loans issued by the Small Business
Administration, taxpayer "gifts" of land, and abatements of costs, fees and
taxes, and political support from Chuckie Schumer, John Kerry, Governor Butch
Otter and Mike Crapo he's gone from zero to a billion (dollars) in about seven
years. His story is the true story of the foreign entrepreneurs that
are held up as show dogs to prove that the America Dream is still possible.
Michael Porter gives us some clues with his "Five
Forces of Competitive Position". Of course the "new market entrants"
are the imported foreigners which sets up the rivalry - essentially turning our
country into a giant soccer stadium for the amusement of the Trendy Demons of
the Ivy League.
This is kind of a tangential view of "competitiveness" in a paper that discusses
environmental regulation and "competitiveness" including a reference to Al Gore,
Michael Porter, the World Bank and the European Commission - all in the same
sentence.
Environmental
Regulation and International Competitiveness
Vicky Davis
November 23, 2013
P.S. What set me
off was not just David Brooks presentation at the Washington Ideas Forum, it was
also a panel discussion on the U.S. "strategic
global competitiveness" that includes Michael Porter. With thought
leadership like this, the U.S. can't fail to be the losers in this "global
competition". (And for what are we competing? To
be the most backward? The most illiterate? The most slavish?
To be the most controlled? To be the most stupid?)