United Stasi of America Posted by Armstrong Economics The thing I find truly astonishing is just when you think the US press could not possibly sink any further, they amazingly find even a lower level. It took the Guardian in Britain to expose the NSA in the USA. It took the American press 30 seconds to discover Snowden’s girlfriend. The images of Snowden’s girlfriend dancing on a pole and posing in underwear is about as meaningful to the issue at hand as who was Obama’s first girlfriend. Perhaps if we discovered that, it might shed light on his ability 50 years later to be President? Anyone who has spoken to anybody who grew up in East Germany will tell you the NSA is acting PRECISELY as did the Stasi – the most notorious secret police in East Germany. There is absolutely nothing the government is now not collecting. Then they harp on Snowden dropping out of school. Actually, those who do not conform and have the guts to stand up also have trouble with schools teaching the same nonsense. They get board and move beyond the teacher. Bill Gates dropped out and started Microsoft. Then there was Winston Churchill. Snowden fits the bill. To quote the Last Lion: “Clearly there was something odd here. Winston, Davidson had conceded, was the ablest boy in his form. He was, in fact, remarkable. His grasp of history was outstanding. Yet he was considered a hopeless pupil. It occurred to no one that the fault might lie, not in the boy, but in the school. Samuel Butler defined genius as “a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds,” and it is ironic that geniuses are likeliest to be misunderstood in classrooms. Studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota have found that teachers smile on children with high IQs and frown upon those with creative minds. Intelligent but uncreative students accept conformity, never rebel, and complete their assignments with dispatch and to perfection. The creative child, on the other hand, is manipulative, imaginative, and intuitive. He is likely to harass the teacher. He is regarded as wild, naughty, silly, undependable, lacking in seriousness or even promise. His behavior is distracting; he doesn’t seem to be trying; he gives unique answers to banal questions, touching off laughter among the other children. E. Paul Torrance of Minnesota found that 70 percent of pupils rated high in creativity were rejected by teachers picking a special class for the intellectually gifted. The Goertzels concluded that a Stanford study of genius, under which teachers selected bright children, would have excluded Churchill, Edison, Picasso, and Mark Twain.”
Posted on: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:42:42 +0000