U.S. Education

Lydia Mugambe, a UN & Ugandan judge, has been convicted of bringing a woman into England illegally and then forcing her to work as a slave. Mugambe tried to evade justice by claiming she had diplomatic immunity, which has now been removed
Mugambe was an African U.N. Criminal Tribunal judge, was a fellow at Columbia University, and has written extensively about human rights. 

She has been convicted of slavery. Slavery.

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In 1940 Gen. Henry Arnold, head of the U.S. Army Air Corps, said using incendiary bombs against cities was “contrary to our national policy of attacking only military objectives.” As the war with Japan went on, American military planners came to believe such tactics would be needed for victory. In March 1945, a fleet of B-29 bombers lit Tokyo on fire, killing more civilians in a night than died during the entire eight-month Blitz on Britain. The use of atomic weapons would follow.--Jonathan W. Jordan in wsj on “Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan” by Richard Overy.

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The first human object launched into space wasn’t Sputnik 1. It was actually a manhole cover accidentally blown off the test shaft during a nuclear test in Nevada 38 days earlier. It reached speeds equal to six times Earth’s escape velocity and was never found. (Wikipedia). Operation Plumbbob! I find I believe every AI sent to me but if you can't believe Wiki, what can you believe?

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U.S. Education

The educators have set "truancy" as the absence of more than 10% of school days. 10%.

New York City's truancy rate was 25%; it is now 34%.

So over one-third of students are truants.

In 2024, thirty-nine percent of fourth-grade students performed at or above the NAEP Proficient level on the mathematics assessment. Proficient.

Twenty-four percent tested below basic. Basic

Sixty-one percent tested below proficient. Proficient.

72% of eighth graders tested below proficient, 39% below basic.

Why is no one screaming?

These alarming numbers will weigh heavily upon those students who have decided not to attend school. Those students who did not learn math and/or read poorly will also suffer. But the nation will suffer the most. This nation can not tolerate the number of unachieving kids becoming unachieving adults. No nation can. It's as if 40% of the nation had become addicts. These are pre-industrial age levels of staring, shuffling, and nonproductive outsiders living below subsistence levels in a vibrant, demanding productive world.

This large group will not develop to offer their individual skills and talents to the culture.

Then what? They will need to be supported by those participating members of the culture. Money will be leeched from investment, maintenance, defense, education, and lifestyle.

And, of course, the sequela of personal failure--drug use, depression, criminality, family irresponsibility, and violence--will rise with their concomitant financial and social demands.

This is a country whose fire bells are becoming background music.