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No school, no books, no teacher's dirty looks |
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No school, no books, no teacher's dirty looksBy Traci Tamura and Thelma Gutierrez
CNN
(CNN)
-- It's a child's dream. Wake up whenever you want, with nobody telling
you what to do and when to do it. And here's the kicker: No school to
rush off to. Welcome to the world of "unschooling" -- an
educational movement where kids, not parents, not teachers, decide what
they will learn that day. "I don't want to sound pompous, but I
think I am learning a little bit more, because I can just do everything
at my own pace," said Nailah Ellis, a 10-year-old from Marietta,
Georgia, who has been unschooled for most of her life. Nailah's
day starts about 11 a.m., her typical wake-up time. She studies
Chinese, reading, writing, piano and martial arts. But there's no set
schedule. She works on what she wants, when she wants. She'll even
watch some TV -- science documentaries are a favorite -- until her day
comes to an end about 2 a.m. An extension of home-schooling,
"unschooling" is when parents give their children total freedom to
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Were US Government Levee Saboteurs Involved In A Fatal Shootout With New Orleans Police |
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Who Really Died In That
New Orleans Katrina Shootout?
Were US Government Levee Saboteurs Involved
In A Fatal Shootout With New Orleans Police
Officers On Sept. 4 At The Danziger Bridge?
By Greg Szymanski
1-10-6
The Sept. 4 gun battle, first killing five and now two on the Danziger Bridge between what was first reported as New Orleans police and U.S. military agents, has turned into a hodge-podge of conflicting reports, misstatements or outright official lies.
An initial report by the Associated Press (AP) claimed five Department of Defense (DOD) personnel were killed by officers at the bridge located on the 5800 block of Chef Menteur Highway near Downman Rd.
The original AP report, however, has since been sanitized with the only copies of the original story kept for posterity at a United Kingdom paper at http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlate and a foreign internet service, La Voz de Aztlan, at http://www.aztlan.net/police_kill_f .
But a quick check of both sites reveals The Guardian link has been deleted and Lo Voz had to provide through email today the original AP story after their link was also inaccessible.
The original AP story since taken down reads in part:
"NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six, a deputy chief said. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal.
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New Orleans - What The Media Is NOT Reporting |
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New Orleans - What The Media Is NOT Reporting - By Wayne Madsen
1-11-6
- New Orleans: What the media is not reporting and what
Congress and the Bush administration are ignoring. Yesterday, two New Orleans
journalists, Jason Berry, who writes for New Orleans magazine, and Lolis
Eric Elie, columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, spoke at the National
Press Club in Washington about the real nature of the situation in New
Orleans and surrounding parishes.
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- The picture they painted of the city is sobering. Only
some 100,000 people, out of a total population of 467,000, have returned
to New Orleans, just a month and a half before the famous Mardi Gras celebrations.
However, the national media and their corporate friends in the urban development
business, will paint New Orleans during the next Mardi Gras celebration
on February 28 as a city coming back from disaster. Nothing could be further
from the truth.
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