About the icon, Che Guevera. What Fontova doesn’t mention is the execution by sledgehammer or starving to death in a locked cell. “Of course we execute.” There is no end to cruelty justified by “knowing” you’re right on the way to Nirvana.
“According to the “Black Book of Communism,” those firing-squad executions had reached 14,000 by the end of the ’60s, the equivalent, given the relative populations, of more than 3 million executions in the U.S. “I don’t need proof to execute a man,” snapped Che to a judicial toady in 1959. “I only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him! … Judicial evidence is an archaic bourgeois detail. We execute from revolutionary conviction.”
Upon arriving in Havana in January 1959 after an utterly bogus guerrilla war (The New York Times breathlessly reported of “thousands dead in single battles!” The official tally compiled by the U.S. embassy after two years of ferocious “civil war” was 184 dead on both sides, half New Orleans’ annual murder tally.), Che Guevara immediately recognized the moat around Havana’s old Spanish fortress La Cabana as a handy-dandy, ready-made execution pit. So he promptly put his firing squads to work in triple shifts.
Edwin Tetlow, Havana correspondent for London’s Daily Telegraph, reported on a mass “trial” orchestrated by Che Guevara in February 1959, where Tetlow noticed the death sentences posted on a board before the trial had started.” Humberto Fontova.
“Ontario’s Green Energy Act, said the Premier, is the “best of its kind, best in class, in North America.” By that he means, it offers the biggest giveaways, the fattest subsidies and the most generous guarantees. To hell with good economics, open markets and competition. Using dictatorship-style powers, the McGuinty government can order its subsidiary agencies — power authorities, distribution companies and regulators — to set rates and build power lines. All the Samsungs of the world have to do is show up and receive Ontario’s Feed-in Tariffs — guaranteed above-market power rates of 13.5¢ a kilowatt hour for wind and 44.3¢ for solar power.” Terence Corcoran–National Post–January 22. 2010. As Ontario tries to outdo California to be the trendiest–that is, the most mistaken jurisdiction in the world. Being world-class is nice, but leading in stupidity is not a proud boast.
from the book: Shadow Dancing on the Grave of Hope:
There are no organized constituencies demanding change in the social sciences, but there are large, powerful and well organized constituencies such as unions and professional organizations lobbying vigorously, and viciously, for the status quo and more "professional" control. These organized constituencies must concentrate on the producer and not the consumer. This keeps ineffectiveness alive and stifles innovation. When an industry or a union is protected against competition, the rest of us are protected against efficiency and improvement.
There are very negative effects of implementing nonsense. This has been shown with Whole Language, repressed memory and facilitated communication, multiple personalities, talking "depth" therapies, manipulatives and "whole mathematics" teaching, invented spelling and various kinds of ineffective programming in all areas. The negative effects fall on the clients while practitioners get status and money. No teacher, principal or educational administrator has ever lost a penny of pay for failure to teach any of the thousands of students I have seen in 37 years. The public education system is no more capable of producing effective education than the Soviet economy was of making reliable cars or useful toilet paper.
Cheerio and ttfn,
Grant Coulson
Cui Bono–Cherchez les Contingencies
