Education don’t have to be hard

I have finally adjusted to the new school, and it seem to be going well. I have trouble with the teachers from time to time. Within politics, education is one of my favourite subjects, and apparently they don’t like my untraditional way – and still being taught that traditions is barely visible in the western world.
The teachings of this school is much alike my previous school. The only difference is the words. It’s basically the same stuff, just new and more complex words to describe things, however I do learn new things, especially in mathematics, but definitely not because of books or long boring speeches. I just tried to use my head, putting bits and pieces together, and much made sense. Well, not sense in particular, it isn’t exactly logic, but I was able to figure out some results.
I think many teachers ask themselves, “Why don’t they bother learning this?”, and I simply don’t understand how those teachers has missed the question, “Why are we being taught this?”. Do you know why I need to calculate a triangle? I want to become a journalist or lawyer, not mathematician or scientist in particular. I don’t want to know these things, and neither teachers or government can tell us exactly why a journalist need to calculate triangles.
Our educations system sucks!

YouTube debates – modern communication reaches the politicians ears!

The President of USA is someone who has influence beyond the Earth, who has influence on the Earths entire population, so I thought, perhaps I should start looking into what presidential candidates that were running this time. YouTube and CNN has a feature for just that. On www.youtube.com/debates normal YouTubers is able to question the candidates. I thought that this way is genius, because it”s very rare that normal citizens of countries are able to stand in front of a high-ranked politicians such as Bush, or these senators and ask them about how they are going to help the nation.
I reach question 5, and the subject hits race. Question 6: Class. Question 7: Gender. All the candidates that spoke on these questions, on all the questions are all agreeing that the last eight years (Perhaps even the last 24 years, except candidate Clinton, who is very proud of her husbands achievements) has been disastrous, and that USA has indeed shameful moments. Obama speaks of “Corridors of Shame”, certain areas of USA that could be mistaken for Africa.
Candidate Edwards is against gay marriage, but won”t cite religion as reason to deny gay rights, and I believe that”s revolutionary, but it”s still odd.
As I started to watch these videos, I had a hard time telling them apart. Are they all the same? But as the questions went on, the difference is quite clear. Until now, we might be better of with a black man and a woman instead of that monkey, that USA currently uses as president. Gravel is a bit sensitive, isn’t he? “The only thing worse than one soldier dying in vain is more soldiers dying in vain”, he yells. I think he is a interesting character in this political game, but I don”t mind that Anderson (The person directing YouTube questions to politicians) don”t give him that many questions. Gravel is very unhappy about it, and yells “Is this fair?”, but does make a funny joke about it in question 18.

In question 25, a guy asks “What is your stance on nuclear power?”, and I believe that candidate Edwards mentions that we haven”t found a good nor safe way to dispose nuclear waste, and I wondered what much money are the hosts of nuclear power plants spending on finding a good and safe way to this? I believe that we have an enormous energy crisis at the moment, as we are still questioning whether it is natural or us creating these green house effects!
Question 27 is rather interesting, and Obama definitely handles the situation perfectly and doesn’t have to answer the actual question, “would you agree to be paid the minimum wage?”.
This debate certainly made me think, and apparently these candidates all qualify for being president of the USA for the time being. I have a term during such times, “Campaign Promises”. Candidates promise their nation about what they’ll do to make it all better, but never actually keep it. I hope, for once, that they’ll keep the promises and do something about the problems we have. I believe that USA could be our ’saviour’, if they do it right.
In all, 38 questions has been answered and more to come on 17th of September.

I read something quite interesting just now. Apparently, only two GOP (Grand Old Party, Republican Party) candidates have agreed to participate in the upcoming show in September YouTube/CNN debate. More to come!

Are we that different?

I found an interesting video on YouTube just now called “Stop the Clash of Civilization”. I believe that it’s rare we find such manifestos like this. This definitely had an impact on me, and I hope that it will on others, especially those the video are talking to. I must admit that I learned something about Middle Eastern culture, something I thought I already knew, so I’m thankful that somebody sits down and creates something like this.

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Actually, we do find many organizations that fights against poverty, war and such. And that is basically the problem. There are too many organizations. I believe that when we send millions of dollars to Africa, more than half are used on transport, workers, bribe and corruption, and if we have hundreds of organizations using a lot of money on these things, Africa ends up with nothing but hunger and poverty. If we emerged the organizations – and perhaps enforcing military to transport the money instead of paying bribe to terrorists and countries trying to take their share, the poverty has a much larger chance of stopping. Otherwise, I believe that sending millions of dollars to foreign countries doesn’t help much. Poor Africans has no education to spend the money properly, and sending them seeds is moronic too. They don’t actually plant the seeds, they eat them. So what are they going to do with coloured paper? Eat it? The only thing that actually worked was when China, many many years ago, sending workers down to make rail tracks and at the same time teaching the Natives how to be better farmers, but one time just wasn’t enough. We could have spend a billion dollars to teach hundreds of Africans how to farm properly, make schools and simply create a better environment instead of sending 100 billion dollars in cash. Denmark, my home country, once gathered a lot of money, and shipped every penny down there, and they were all used on AIDS medicine from USA. What’s up with that?

Stop the idiocracy, and start using your brain. You choose!

Wearetheweb.org

Did you thought that “Weird Al” Yancovic was nerdy in “White and Nerdy”. You got it all wrong. Wearetheweb.org fights for net neutrality and Internet freedom, and I suggest that you do it too.

“We love the Internet”

A Net Neutrality Message for Everyone: We Are the Web
The issue of net neutrality is reaching a boiling point, and the results will affect every Internet user in the US. We Are the Web is here to raise awareness with the help of some of the web’s biggest names: Leslie Hall, The Tron Guy, and Peter Pan.
This is happening in Europe too!