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    “There is a campaign under way to essentially destroy the public education system along with every aspect of human life and attitudes and thought that involve social solidarity. It’s being done in all sorts of ways. One is simply by underfunding. So, if you can make the public schools really rotten, people will look for an alternative. Any service that’s going to be privatized, the first thing you do is make it malfunction so people can say, “We want to get rid of it. It’s not running. Let’s give it to Lockheed.” — Noam Chomsky, The Progressive Magazine, September 1999, p.37

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    “To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism, and religious dogmas.” - Brock Chisholm, Director UN World Health Organization (1948-53).

Italy Adopts Education Reform Amid Ongoing Student Protests

Posted on October 29, 2008 by the editor

Rome – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government won Wednesday final parliamentary approval for controversial education reforms, against which thousands of students are staging protests around the country. The Italian Senate, the upper house of parliament, approved the decree by 162 votes for to 134 against with three abstentions. News of the decree’s approval was greetedwith jeers of “Clowns! Clowns!,” by students staging a sit-in outside the Senate’s Palazzo Madama building in central Rome.

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