Caz
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 Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:58 am Post subject: National College for School Leadership and Kissinger |
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NCSL is the National College for School Leadership, launched in November 2000 by Tony Blair and David Blunkett. http://www.ncsl.org.uk/media/1CB/30/leadership-and-innovation-in-the-t ransformation-of-schools.pdf
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Henry Kissinger believes that “the present generation has the power to tap into astonishing amounts of knowledge on any subject but no ability to integrate it into a knowledge of the past and no ability therefore to project it meaningfully into the future” (cited by Sheridan, 1999,
p 274). |
Kissinger is also quoted on NCSL courses, along with Paul Hersey:
| Quote: | Kissinger: 'Before I served as a consultant to (President Kennedy) I had believed, like most academics, that the process of decision making was largely intellectual and all one had to do was to walk into the President's office and convince him of the correctness of one's views. This perspetive, I soon realised, is as dangerously immature as it is widely held.'
Dr. Paul Hersey. The Situational Leader: 'Leadership is simply the process of influencing someone to do something that he or she might otherwise not do. Leadership is influence.' |
My understanding is that middle management teachers in secondary schools in the UK must do courses at NCSL if they wish to progress to senior management.
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Caz
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The course which quotes Kissinger, with respect. From the National College of School Leadership:
http://www.bestpracticenet.co.uk/lp.html
Kissinger's other history:
from: http://www.kissinger.20m.com/
| Quote: | The Charges Against Kissinger
"If killing hundreds of thousands of innocent peasants by dropping million of tons of bombs on undefended civilian targets is not a war crime, then there are no war crimes. If Kissinger is not responsible for these crimes, then there are no war criminals." (Fred Branfman in Salon)
An indictment of Henry Kissinger for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes would include (but not be confined to) the following.
VIETNAM
Kissinger scuttled peace talks in 1968, paving the way for Richard Nixon's victory in the presidential race. Half the battle deaths in Vietnam took place between 1968 and 1972, not to mention the millions of civilians throughout Indochina who were killed.
CAMBODIA
Kissinger persuaded Nixon to widen the war with massive bombing of Cambodia and Laos. No one had suggested we go to war with either of these countries. By conservative estimates, the U.S. killed 600,000 civilians in Cambodia and another 350,000 in Laos.
BANGLADESH
Using weapons supplied by the U.S., General Yahya Khan overthrew the democratically elected government and murdered at least half a million civilians in 1971. In the White House, the National Security Council wanted to condemn these actions. Kissinger refused. Amid the killing, Kissinger thanked Khan for his "delicacy and tact."
CHILE
Kissinger helped to plan the 1973 U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected Salvador Allende and the assassination of General Rene Schneider. Right-wing general Augusto Pinochet then took over. Moderates fled for their lives.
CYPRUS
Kissinger medled in Eastern Europe as well. In 1974, he knowingly allowed and actually encouraged a Turkish invasion to Cyprus. The resulting invasion caused the division of the island and the disappearance of 1,619 people. Kissiner claims to have had no foreknowledge, but there is substantial evidence to the contrary. |
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/121
| Quote: | Kissinger, in short order, accepted and then resigned from running the "independent" 9/11 whitewash for Bush. Why? Well, the documentary "9/11: Press for Truth" offered one possible reason. The intrepid widows of 9/11, "The Jersey Girls," met with Kissinger after he was appointed by Bush to lead the 9/11 "inquiry." According to one of the spunky widows, they asked Kissinger if having Saudi Arabia as a client was a conflict of interest, considering that 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, as is bin Laden. Then one of the widows asked if the bin Laden family itself was a client of Kissenger's consulting firm (this is all in the film "Press for Truth"). At that point, according to one of the "Jersey Girls," Kissinger "nearly fell out of his chair."
Shortly thereafter, Kissinger informed Bush that he would not be serving as head of the 9/11 Commission after all. |
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/feb/24/pinochet.book extracts In the Guardian
http://www.icai-online.org/45365,Index.html (The efforts for Kissinger to be tried as a war criminal)
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/h-titles/hitchens_kissinger.shtml
| Quote: | | "This is a disturbing glimpse into the dark side of American power, whose consequences in remote corners of the globe are all too often ignored. Its countless victims have found an impassioned and skilful advocate in Christopher Hitchens." – The Sunday Times |
http://musictravel.free.fr/political/political3.htm
| Quote: | | President Ford and Secretary of State Kissinger, who gave the go ahead to Suharto's invasion of East Timor and subsequent massive war crimes there, and the same Kissinger, who helped President Nixon engineer and then protect the Pinochet coup and regime of torture and murder, and directed the first phase of the holocaust in Cambodia (1969-75), remain honored citizens. The media have never suggested that these men should be brought to trial in the interest of justice, law, and "civilization." |
He also has a hand in childcare:
| Quote: | KINDERCARE OWNER IS VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF
GEORGE BUSH,
OWNER ALSO CONNECTED TO
HENRY KISSINGER AND THE ROCKEFELLERS
Kindercare is owned by a holding company called Kohlburg, Kravis, and
Roberts (KKR), of 9 West 57th Street, Suite 4200, New York NY 10019.
Telephone 212-750-8300.
It is America's largest provider of preschool educational and child-care
services. KinderCare Learning Centers Inc. owns and operates more than a
thousand facilities in 39 states and the United Kingdom. In 1997, the
company, which was founded in 1969 by Perry Mendel, a Montgomery, Alabama,
real estate developer, had net operating revenues of more than $563 million.
Also in 1997, Kolhberg, Kravis and Roberts acquired approximately 85 percent
of the company's stock. |
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/29641.html
| Quote: | The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - ) |
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