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"Human Resources" By Martha 04/24/02 12:13:17 PM

Date: 04/24/02 12:13:17 PM
Name: Martha
Email: mulkie@rutchem.rutgers.edu
Subject: "Human Resources"

At best, it is "good intentions" (and we all know what road they are used to pave). At worst, it is a plan to dominate and control all the "little people" -- the ones who are not as clever as the people who run the World Bank. It's amazing how we hear all this blather about multiculturalism and respect for diversity, while simultaneously there is a relentless agenda to make us all be the same and think the same.

Shortly after we removed our son from the public schools, we took a family field trip to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. My son was fascinated watching the fish in one of the big tanks, when I said to him, "See all those fish? Notice how they all look the same, are swimming in the same direction, and are all doing the same thing? That's what you call a 'school' of fish." Maybe that's why human beings keep resisting it.

The "sensible plan" undoubtedly involves learning English, abandoning one's own culture, and becoming good consumers.

I am encouraged, however, by the fact that throughout history, humanity always asserts itself eventually. Human nature never really changes, and because of that, those who want to control everybody else are going to continue running into snags.

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This was in the paper today. It is yet more evidence of the grand plan to standardize the human being for service in the global workforce. I love how they push all the emotional buttons about teaching young girls to read etc. Don't think for a moment that the World Bank, of all corporate strangleholds, would reveal it's true mission to get "every child in the world in school". Of course you also note who is supposed to foot the bill for this "Education for All". Why should the ruling elite use their own money when the American taxpayer will do it for them. THere would be a public outcry if "Friends" or some such blather went off the air, but something like this will go unnoticed.

World Bank Endorses Global Education Plan
April 22, 2002
By PAUL BLUSTEIN, Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- Global financial leaders gave broad backing Sunday to a World Bank plan aimed at ensuring that by 2015 all children in poor countries get at least a primary school education.

The plan, called "Education for All," still lacks firm financial commitments from many major donors, most notably the United States. That is a source of concern to aid advocates who warned that the initiative would probably fail unless the Bush administration provides enthusiastic leadership in the form of a sizable contribution.

At a news conference that capped the weekend meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, however, World Bank President James Wolfensohn said he was "extremely heartened by the support" for the plan shown by members of a policy-setting committee that represented the bank's 183 member nations, including Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who represented the United States.

"What I hoped to get today on education ... I got," Wolfensohn said. "It was a wholehearted endorsement." The British aid group Oxfam International hailed the result as "a major breakthrough in the campaign to get every child in the world into school," while adding that rich countries must now back up their words with billions of dollars in funding.

About 125 million primary-school-age children in developing countries, the majority of them girls, do not attend school. Getting nearly all of those children to attend class and complete five years of primary education is widely regarded by development experts as one of the most achievable and important of the "millennium development goals" set two years ago by the world's governments for 2015. Reducing illiteracy among women generates many benefits in poor societies, including improved child health and nutrition.

During the weekend meetings, the World Bank warned that 88 countries will fall considerably short of meeting the education goal if they continue on their present course. The bank said it will cost $2.5 billion to $5 billion annually to help the 47 poorest countries meet the goal, and the cost of achieving the goal in all developing countries could be triple that amount.

The World Bank plan is based on the idea that the poor countries, rather than the donors, should play the main role in improving their education systems, and that any country with a sensible plan can count on receiving sufficient foreign assistance for it.

Liz again: Please tell me what a "sensible plan" is. Sensible to whom? Could it be that any "poor" country with a greedy govt. will agree to producing non-thinking, cookie cutter people, to get their hands on the money?

Re: "Human Resources" By Liz 04/26/02 07:50:54 AM

Date: 04/26/02 07:50:54 AM
Name: Liz
Email:
Subject: Re: "Human Resources"

Exactly! I was just telling my dad about this the other day. I am pretty certain that I know how "the plan" would work. Different cultures would exist in name only (kind of like freedom in America today). There will be Argentina day, India Day, Polish Day, etc. The traditional dress will be worn, maybe some traditional rituals performed, and people will accept this as the diversity of cultures. Then we can all get back to being drones. I think it's how the Native Americans in our area operate. I have such a heavy heart for these people because their culture has been ravaged, the Gubmn't throws them the casino bone (don't forget "the man" is making a pretty penny on this as well) and they are content to rake in the billions from broken people, hold a pow-wow every couple of months, and open a museum showing what their lives and values once were.

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At best, it is "good intentions" (and we all know what road they are used to pave). At worst, it is a plan to dominate and control all the "little people" -- the ones who are not as clever as the people who run the World Bank. It's amazing how we hear all this blather about multiculturalism and respect for diversity, while simultaneously there is a relentless agenda to make us all be the same and think the same.

Shortly after we removed our son from the public schools, we took a family field trip to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. My son was fascinated watching the fish in one of the big tanks, when I said to him, "See all those fish? Notice how they all look the same, are swimming in the same direction, and are all doing the same thing? That's what you call a 'school' of fish." Maybe that's why human beings keep resisting it.

The "sensible plan" undoubtedly involves learning English, abandoning one's own culture, and becoming good consumers.

I am encouraged, however, by the fact that throughout history, humanity always asserts itself eventually. Human nature never really changes, and because of that, those who want to control everybody else are going to continue running into snags.

Replying to:
This was in the paper today. It is yet more evidence of the grand plan to standardize the human being for service in the global workforce. I love how they push all the emotional buttons about teaching young girls to read etc. Don't think for a moment that the World Bank, of all corporate strangleholds, would reveal it's true mission to get "every child in the world in school". Of course you also note who is supposed to foot the bill for this "Education for All". Why should the ruling elite use their own money when the American taxpayer will do it for them. THere would be a public outcry if "Friends" or some such blather went off the air, but something like this will go unnoticed.

World Bank Endorses Global Education Plan
April 22, 2002
By PAUL BLUSTEIN, Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- Global financial leaders gave broad backing Sunday to a World Bank plan aimed at ensuring that by 2015 all children in poor countries get at least a primary school education.

The plan, called "Education for All," still lacks firm financial commitments from many major donors, most notably the United States. That is a source of concern to aid advocates who warned that the initiative would probably fail unless the Bush administration provides enthusiastic leadership in the form of a sizable contribution.

At a news conference that capped the weekend meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, however, World Bank President James Wolfensohn said he was "extremely heartened by the support" for the plan shown by members of a policy-setting committee that represented the bank's 183 member nations, including Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who represented the United States.

"What I hoped to get today on education ... I got," Wolfensohn said. "It was a wholehearted endorsement." The British aid group Oxfam International hailed the result as "a major breakthrough in the campaign to get every child in the world into school," while adding that rich countries must now back up their words with billions of dollars in funding.

About 125 million primary-school-age children in developing countries, the majority of them girls, do not attend school. Getting nearly all of those children to attend class and complete five years of primary education is widely regarded by development experts as one of the most achievable and important of the "millennium development goals" set two years ago by the world's governments for 2015. Reducing illiteracy among women generates many benefits in poor societies, including improved child health and nutrition.

During the weekend meetings, the World Bank warned that 88 countries will fall considerably short of meeting the education goal if they continue on their present course. The bank said it will cost $2.5 billion to $5 billion annually to help the 47 poorest countries meet the goal, and the cost of achieving the goal in all developing countries could be triple that amount.

The World Bank plan is based on the idea that the poor countries, rather than the donors, should play the main role in improving their education systems, and that any country with a sensible plan can count on receiving sufficient foreign assistance for it.

Liz again: Please tell me what a "sensible plan" is. Sensible to whom? Could it be that any "poor" country with a greedy govt. will agree to producing non-thinking, cookie cutter people, to get their hands on the money?