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The billionaires called it an "excess of democracy", & they worked out how to defeat it:

THE PLAN

In 1975, Samuel P. Huntington said the "excess of democracy" was caused by mass education in the 1960s.

It followed that education had to be de-democratised. Along with the media.

independentaustralia.net/polit

HOW IT'S GOING

2025: SCOTUS complies:

democracynow.org/2025/7/15/hea

#Plutocracy #TrilateralCommission #USPol #PowellMemo #EuroPol #Education #Racism #Autocracy .

🧑‍🏫 An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education

「 Current GenAI technologies represent unacceptable legal, ethical and environmental harms, including exploitative labour, piracy of countless creators' and artists' work, harmful biases, mass production of misinformation, and reversal of the global emissions reduction trajectory 」

openletter.earth/an-open-lette

openletter.earthAn open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education
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@DemocracyClub
Representative democracy has been biased from its inception. I believe we have passed trying to fix it. Sociocracy has the potential to function as a form of democratic government, its effectiveness would depend on many factors, not least the willingness of individuals to embrace a collaborative approach.
#education #equality

#GiftArticle

In clearing the way for Trump’s efforts to transform US govt, #SCOTUS has issued a series of orders that often lacked a fundamental characteristic of most judicial work: an explanation of the court’s rationale.

On Mon, for instance, in letting #Trump dismantle the #Education Dept, the majority’s unsigned order was a single 4-sentence paragraph entirely devoted to the procedural mechanics of pausing a lower court’s ruling.

#law #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower
nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/poli

The court has allowed the administration to fire tens of thousands of government workers, discharge transgender troops, end protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants from war-torn countries and fundamentally shift power from Congress to the president.
The New York Times · Supreme Court Keeps Ruling in Trump’s Favor, but Doesn’t Say WhyBy Adam Liptak

theguardian.com/politics/2025/. This is what #Starmer is all about - & what a genuine #Labour Party, without quotation marks, is NOT about, @ChrisMayLA6, @HarriettMB. He does NOT represent genuine Labour values & principles - he's an enemy of every single one of them, @junesim63. A real Labour Government would be increasing #disability #benefits, not cutting them, & would be improving #SEND #education for #disabled #children.

The Guardian · Labour MP suspended for opposing disability cuts will keep speaking for ‘invisible in society’By Eleni Courea