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Mike Klonsky, an Obama supporter and former associate of the radicals who formed the terrorist group the Weatherman, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.
Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism.
Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.
And get this… Klonsky reportedly shared offices on the same floor with Barack Obama and Bill Ayers at the University of Illinois, Chicago campus.
So it should come as no surprise that Mike Klonsky, the former Communist Party leader, is a huge supporter of Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Chicago teachers went on strike today for the first time in 25 years despite the fact that the average teacher salary in Chicago is $74,839 a year.
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Originally posted by links234
Oh my god! I don't know whose side I'm supposed to be on!!!!!
Originally posted by HUMBLEONE
Xuenchen. Nice job Comrade! The Capitalist pigs will no doubt blame Obama! You have saved our true asset, Madame Hillary from detection. Make them search everywhere for communists comrade Xuechen, a brilliant ploy in the style of the Great Chairman.
Originally posted by Mike.Ockizard
reply to post by xuenchen
Heaven forbid. So now he's a socialist, muslim, communist, forger and none of the GOP, CIA, NSA picked up on it? Thank goodness for the internet (sarcasm)
Originally posted by MrSpad
In other words, Hey everybody the guy running against Obama is so crappy that I am am reduced to desperately trying to tie Obama to somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who believes in an economic system that I do not understand. Trying to trick people into thinking Obama is a communist might work if, Obama had not already been in office for 4 years and shown he is about a big of communist as George Bush Jr.
Originally posted by links234
Rahm Emmanual, the mayor of Chicago, worked directly for president Obama in the White House...that means Rahm Emmanual is linked to the Union President/Communist Party Chief too!
Oh my god! I don't know whose side I'm supposed to be on!!!!!
Wait..Fox News suggests I should side with Emmanual on this because unions are bad...but I've just proven that he's a communist, I can't support a communist...I'm an American!
A TAD weak?????? Any link is bad. Do you even know what you are saying??? You and others like you are excusing him......yet again.
Originally posted by lewman
These connections seem a tad weak imo as a Communist would certainly vote the democrats over the republicans and knowing someone in college does not prove anything other than that you knew the person.
Now talking about links to terrorists, then what about the links between the Bush and Bin Laden family's as well as past republican links with the taliban and then the democrat Bill Clintons pardening of a known South American terrorist a matter of days before he left office.
Personally, I dont think this is even relevant to the elections, but thats just my opinion.edit on 11-9-2012 by lewman because: post seems to be in a strange position
An estimated 26,000 public school teachers are on strike in Chicago – the first such action in the city for 25 years.
In Chicago and beyond, public school teachers say they are being attacked by the policies of both of the main political parties.
"When you look at the [various foundations] it's clear that there is a very explicit agenda driven by a lot of very wealthy people often from the hedge fund and tech industries …there is probably a lot of good intent but also a very narrow worldview..."
- Robin Rogers, an associate professor of sociology
They are locked in a dispute with administrators over issues that include pay, work conditions, job security and teacher evaluations.
The action represents a challenge for Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff to Barack Obama, the US president. He has made changing the city's school system a top priority of his time in office, wanting more private sector involvement.
The drive to privatise public schools is not confined to Chicago, it is happening across the US. And what was once a firmly Republican policy is now championed by Democrats all the way up to the president.
It is also being pushed by billionaire philanthropist groups such as the Bill Gates Foundation, who believe schools should be run more like businesses.
Wealthy donors are also channelling funds to Hollywood, which has produced several films including the soon-to-be-released Won't Back Down, which teachers accuse of demonising their profession and union.
AMY GOODMAN: Phil Cantor, explain what high-stakes testing means for teachers and what it means when your pay is related to that.
PHIL CANTOR: At my school, I looked at the calendar for the year, and there are about 15 days where students are being tested on standardized tests. These tests are not designed to help the students. Many of these tests are designed because of No Child Left Behind to measure the school. And now, because of Race to the Top and these new reforms, now these tests are being used to measure teacher performance. So, what does that mean? It means that rather than planning rich-inquiry, interesting lessons for our students, we have to focus on very specific tested standards in a very narrow way that students have to then demonstrate those skills.
To give an absurd example, this week I’m supposed to give a district-mandated test to my ninth grade biology students, who I’ve known for one week, on DNA-to-RNA transcription and translation in protein synthesis. The reason they’re getting this test, on material they’ve never seen before, is so that I can be measured from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. It is putting our students in a terrible position to do something that was never—it’s an insane way to try to measure teachers. It’s clearly sort of the business model, the corporate model of people who don’t understand the classroom, saying, "Oh, we’ll test them at the beginning of the year and the end of the year and see growth." But it’s an absurd sort of test that is not going to work even for that purpose, and it’s certainly not going to help our students.
AMY GOODMAN: And the issue of charter schools, how does that play in here, Phil?
PHIL CANTOR: Charter schools are being used to privatize the school system. There’s research that shows that charter schools actually tend to be used as a tool of gentrification in the city. The threat is that if we don’t do well on standardized tests, then our school will be turned around, meaning it will be turned over to a private charter school operation. So there’s this constant threat over teachers that if you don’t get test scores up, your school will be privatized into a charter, you’ll lose your job, your community will lose a community-based school, and students will have to sort of lottery to get into your school.
Originally posted by xuenchen
The rabbit holes go deep ....
Obama has commie connections....close connections !!
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Mike Klonsky, an Obama supporter and former associate of the radicals who formed the terrorist group the Weatherman, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.
Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism.
Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.
And get this… Klonsky reportedly shared offices on the same floor with Barack Obama and Bill Ayers at the University of Illinois, Chicago campus.
So it should come as no surprise that Mike Klonsky, the former Communist Party leader, is a huge supporter of Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers’ Union. Chicago teachers went on strike today for the first time in 25 years despite the fact that the average teacher salary in Chicago is $74,839 a year.
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What does this mean for Obama?
How many voters will "support" these communist connections?
edit on Sep-11-2012 by xuenchen because: