The Cartel

There are thousands of listeners to every podcast. Usually there are about 7 thousand who will listen to each on the first day that it goes up. If we could get just one good drive where people donated 10 dollars each just 10 dollars there would be a pool of 70 thousand dollars to use for independent media. It never works like that though its always a handful giving a 50 or so and a majority giving 0. It takes time to research and give the news, interview guests and so on. There are webmasters to pay, software, and a lot of time off that has to be taken off paid work even more so to make a documentary film or write a book. I can do all of these things if I can just make enough to pay the rent and bills. Debt We have got to be able to challenge the sensationalist media, the pseudo-independent media which is filled with gate-keeping, and of course the state run official media which is filled with lies. They have millions of dollars. We don't need millions to challenge them though because truth is not even remotely near as expensive as lies.

We are working on Networking. Bill Still, Jeff Blankfort, Maidhc O'Cathail, and others you have heard in the podcast may find a home soon to mirror their sites. The plan is to gather journalists with integrity under one roof, who will not sell out to sensationalism and who will not gatekeep to avoid unpopular beliefs. We are about to take this all to a new level. I will be hosting the What Really Happened Show Dec 17-19 I would like to make that the money bomb week as well. The more we can raise the more journalist I can bring in, the better the site will look, the more films I will make, and the better quality it will all be. We can do this. -Ry

from Ry Dawson http://ancreport.com/

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Published on Aug 1, 2012

American public schools have been growing progressively worse. According to the U.S. Department of Education national testing, only 35% of American high school seniors are proficient in reading, based on 2006 data. And fewer than one-in-four, 23%, are proficient in math. On the global stage, America ranks last in educational effectiveness among large industrialized countries despite the highest spending per student in the world. It presents a conundrum: How has the richest and most innovative society on earth suddenly lost the ability to teach its children at a level that other modern countries consider "basic"? If the problem is that we're not spending enough on schools, which many people believe, it's instructive to study the U.S. state that spends more than any other per student: New Jersey With spending as high as $483,000 per classroom (confirmed by NJ Education Department records for 2005-06), New Jersey students fare only slightly better than the national average in reading and math, and rank 37th in average SAT scores. And not even half of NJ's high school freshmen, despite the state's enormous "investment," are academically ready for college four years later. The fact is much of the public considers teacher salaries and overall education budgets to be the same thing -- if you're for raising one, you must be for raising the other. But as the film shows, in many cases 80-90% of the spending goes somewhere besides teacher salaries. In fact billions of dollars, as confirmed by independent audits, are wasted. "The Cartel" investigates what is causing this vast underachievement and what can be done to turn things around.

Category
Documentary
Starring:
Bob Bowdon
Bill Baroni
Rick Berman
Directed by:
Bob Bowdon
Produced by:
Bob Bowdon
Written by:
Bob Bowdon

from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcVg9YM_SCg