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turbinetree's JournalWhy we should bulldoze the business school
There are 13,000 business schools on Earth. That’s 13,000 too many. And I should know – I’ve taught in them for 20 years.
By Martin Parker
Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or “surplus”) – as you might expect, from a form of knowledge that teaches people how to make profits.
Business schools have huge influence, yet they are also widely regarded to be intellectually fraudulent places, fostering a culture of short-termism and greed. (There is a whole genre of jokes about what MBA – Master of Business Administration – really stands for: “Mediocre But Arrogant”, “Management by Accident”, “More Bad Advice”, “Master Bullshit Artist” and so on.) Critics of business schools come in many shapes and sizes: employers complain that graduates lack practical skills, conservative voices scorn the arriviste MBA, Europeans moan about Americanisation, radicals wail about the concentration of power in the hands of the running dogs of capital. Since 2008, many commentators have also suggested that business schools were complicit in producing the crash.
Having taught in business schools for 20 years, I have come to believe that the best solution to these problems is to shut down business schools altogether. This is not a typical view among my colleagues. Even so, it is remarkable just how much criticism of business schools over the past decade has come from inside the schools themselves. Many business school professors, particularly in north America, have argued that their institutions have gone horribly astray. B-schools have been corrupted, they say, by deans following the money, teachers giving the punters what they want, researchers pumping out paint-by-numbers papers for journals that no one reads and students expecting a qualification in return for their cash (or, more likely, their parents’ cash). At the end of it all, most business-school graduates won’t become high-level managers anyway, just precarious cubicle drones in anonymous office blocks.
These are not complaints from professors of sociology, state policymakers or even outraged anti-capitalist activists. These are views in books written by insiders, by employees of business schools who themselves feel some sense of disquiet or even disgust at what they are getting up to. Of course, these dissenting views are still those of a minority. Most work within business schools is blithely unconcerned with any expression of doubt, participants being too busy oiling the wheels to worry about where the engine is going. Still, this internal criticism is loud and significant.
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The sort of world that is being produced by the market managerialism that the business school sells is not a pleasant one. It’s a sort of utopia for the wealthy and powerful, a group that the students are encouraged to imagine themselves joining, but such privilege is bought at a very high cost, resulting in environmental catastrophe, resource wars and forced migration, inequality within and between countries, the encouragement of hyper-consumption as well as persistently anti-democratic practices at work.
Selling the business school works by ignoring these problems, or by mentioning them as challenges and then ignoring them in the practices of teaching and research. If we want to be able to respond to the challenges that face human life on this planet, then we need to research and teach about as many different forms of organising as we are able to collectively imagine. For us to assume that global capitalism can continue as it is means to assume a path to destruction. So if we are going to move away from business as usual, then we also need to radically reimagine the business school as usual. And this means more than pious murmurings about corporate social responsibility. It means doing away with what we have, and starting again.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school
'If I were the president, I'd get rid of you': Scott Pruitt lacerated at ethics hearing
EPA administrator blames media and his job’s learning curve as lawmakers grill him over lavish spending and ethical controversies
Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has blamed the media and the “learning process” of his job for the flurry of ethical controversies that have engulfed his tenure, during a lacerating congressional hearing.
Pruitt said opponents of Donald Trump, and the media, had sought to “derail the president’s agenda and priorities” by highlighting the questionable use of taxpayer funds for first-class flights, office furniture and 24-hour personal security, as well as his use of a Washington apartment owned by an energy lobbyist’s wife.
However, Pruitt did not offer explanations for the numerous revelations and did not deny that he authorized sizable pay increases for two staffers, against the White House’s wishes. “I wasn’t aware of the amount nor was I aware of the PPO [presidential personnel office] process not being respected,” he said, saying the matter was “delegated” to Ryan Jackson, his chief of staff.
This contradicts a TV interview earlier this month when Pruitt said he had no idea about the raises. Pruitt has also previously falsely claimed that the lobbyist, Steven Hart, had no business before the EPA when he rented his wife’s apartment.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/scott-pruitt-epa-congressional-hearing-house-committee
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Frank Pallone, another Democrat, said Pruitt had used the job to “enrich himself and his corporate friends” with the apparent approval of Trump. “If I were the president I wouldn’t want your help, I’d just get rid of you,” he told Pruitt.
Hey, Pruitt since you think that you have learning curve problem-----------resign, because no matter what happens, this coming 2019, the "BLUE WAVE" is going to bring you back into the hearings and charge you with a perjury, and have the sargent-n-arms arrest you right then and there--------------
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Jeff Sessions is shamefully undermining WEB Du Bois's legacy
A justice department program of research fellowships in the civil rights leader’s name has been twisted to suit the attorney general’s agenda.
Since 2002, the US Department of Justice’s WEB Du Bois program has sponsored research fellowships on issues of race and criminal justice. During Republican and Democratic administrations, a diverse group of academics have carried the spirit of the noted sociologist and civil rights leader to the race challenges of the 21st century. Given the racial disparity endemic at every stage of the justice system the DoJ’s investigation of these issues has been praiseworthy.
But with Jeff Sessions as attorney general exploring the roots of this injustice may now be compromised. In the recently released solicitation for the Du Bois fellowships the DoJ invited scholars to engage in research on five issues arising out of the “tough on crime” era that would make a student of the Du Bois legacy shudder.
Whereas Du Bois is widely known for promoting the idea that “the problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line”, the DoJ solicitation displays no interest in such high-profile issues as police killings of unarmed black men or the impact of mass incarceration on the African American community. Instead, “protecting police officers” is the only area of law enforcement prioritized by the DoJ.
Another research priority, “enhancing immigration enforcement”, coming at a moment when barely disguised racist imagery accompanies those policies, seems particularly jarring when upheld in the name of a civil rights legend.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/apr/26/jeff-sessions-is-shamefully-undermining-web-du-boiss-legacy
I think that a racists enabling asshole should be presently under indictment for LYING to a member(s) of a U.S. Senate confirmation hearing and should be in fucking jail for treason for falsifying his Form 85 and lying to the FBI during his interview process and committing perjury.
And this fucking snowflake, yes, he is a snowflake, likes to fucking talk to Russian spies and LIES about it.......................he's a fucking TRAITOR and has no business being the top law enforcement officer, when it comes to administrating the law..................none................and whoever voted to confirm this fucking snowflake are also enabling Traitors......................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Sean Hannity: 400% rise in eviction orders since host bought Georgia apartment complex
Source: The Guardian
The number of eviction orders obtained against tenants in a Georgia apartment complex owned by Sean Hannity has sharply increased since the property was bought by the Fox News host.
County court records say that judgments approving the removal of 61 different residents of the Hampton Place apartments in Perry have been issued during the three years and 10 months since Hannity took over.
The previous owner of the 152-unit apartment complex obtained similar orders against 12 different tenants during the preceding three years and 10 months, according to the records, before selling it to Hannity for almost $8m.
Christopher Reeves, an attorney for the Fox News host, said in an email: “Mr Hannity is not involved in the management of these properties. Evictions only occur after a material breach of the lease terms.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/27/sean-hannity-eviction-orders-georgia-apartment-complex
Hey, Hannity did you learn this from the orange hair malignant narcissistic psychopathic sexual predator fuck head, that is a "motormouth" traitor, did you check out your fuckhead traitor on fix noise yesterday......................
But back to your slum lord tactics.....................worried................now that you are being exposed................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Whistleblower: Bannon Aimed To Suppress Dem Voters, Tested Putins Popularity
Reprinted with permission from Shareblue.com
Former Trump campaign CEO and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon directed Cambridge Analytica — the scandal-plagued data firm hired by the Trump campaign — to research voter suppression tactics to discourage Democrats from voting in the 2016 presidential election, according to whistleblower Christopher Wylie.
Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, told Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this week that Bannon ordered the data firm to explore methods for “discouraging particular types of voters who are more prone to voting for Democratic or liberal candidates.”
“There is one document which I have that specifically says — in bold terms — voter disengagement as an objective in the United States,” Wylie said, according to testimony released Wednesday.
Asked if he had ever heard Bannon specifically talk about voter disenfranchisement or voter disengagement, Wylie replied “Yes.”
http://www.nationalmemo.com/whistleblower-bannon-aimed-to-suppress-dem-voters-tested-putins-popularity/
I know that since the sexual predator was having a "motormouth melt down yesterday" and that Maddow had a short clip on this issue, but the television media is fucking failing the country and not mentioning this on the nightly news.............
The Losing Fight Against Fake Meat
Reprinted with permission from Creators.
When you visit a grocery, literal-mindedness is a handicap. Apple butter is actually not a dairy product. Grape-Nuts cereal omits grapes as well as nuts. Corn dogs don’t need leashes.
The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association, however, is appalled that new forms of protein are being sold under names such as Beyond Beef and Impossible Burger. Vegetarian and vegan substitutes for meat have gained a significant share of the market, partly because of health considerations and partly because of aversion to killing harmless animals for food. But the livestock group fears that consumers are being cruelly misled.
It wants the Department of Agriculture to stop not only the use of these brand names but any term suggesting that there is such a thing as “synthetic beef” or “vegan meat.”
It complains that Beyond Meat offers what it calls “a plant-based burger that smells, tastes, looks and even feels like ground beef” — and, if you can imagine, “strategically merchandises its products adjacent to traditional meat in grocery stores.” Yet, it notes, these foods are composed entirely of “non-meat ingredients such as ‘Pea Protein Isolate,’ ‘Rice Flour’ and ‘Yeast Extract.'”
http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-losing-fight-against-fake-meat/
Lawman Keeps $750K In Inmate Food Funds, Buys Beach Home, Blames Media
Source: Talking Points Memo
The sheriff says he’s following the law. The inmates say they’re going hungry.
According to a string of reports from AL.com, Sheriff Todd Entrekin of Etowah County, Alabama, has pocketed over three quarters of a million dollars intended for inmates’ meals, buying himself an expensive beach house, among other items, while leaving detainees eating rotten or contaminated food. Not long after acting as a source for AL.com’s reporting, one local man found himself charged with a felony by Entrekin’s office.
Entrekin has been taking advantage of a state law, passed before World War II, that allows sheriffs to keep for themselves any excess taxpayer dollars intended to feed inmates in their jails. He’s one of 49 Alabama sheriffs named in a lawsuit filed in January by human rights groups alleging abuse of the law. The groups say that because Alabama sheriffs have complete discretion over what inmates eat, the law incentivizes sheriffs to cut costs on food.
In response, Entrekin, who is running for reelection this year, has come out swinging, calling the claims “fake news” churned out by the “liberal media.”
Entrekin did not immediately return TPM’s questions seeking comment.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/todd-entrekin-blames-liberal-media-alabama-sheriffs-pocket-inmate-food-funds
What the fuck is wrong with this picture.................fraud is still fraud on the taxpayers of Alabama...............
Arizonas two black lawmakers reprimanded for speaking out against colleagues use of racial slur
Republican lawmaker quoted a racial slur in an op-ed criticizing the leaders of the teachers strike.
REBEKAH ENTRALGO APR 26, 2018, 6:54 PM
Democratic Reps. Reginald Bolding and Geraldine Peten are the only black members of the Arizona state legislature. The two were reprimanded for speaking out against an op-ed written by a Republican colleague, a column that included a racial slur and derided black activists.
The op-ed, written by Rep. Maria Syms and published in the Arizona Republic, alleges that the two leaders of a teacher group protesting for better pay and working conditions are “political operatives.”
Syms describes the classroom of one #RedForEd leader as “exotic” because he teaches the lyrics of Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar. Syms goes on to quote a lyric from one of Lamar’s songs, which includes a racial slur for black people. The Arizona Republic op-ed has since been updated to remove the expletive.
“This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he may have introduced lyrics in the classroom written by a black entertainer,” Bolding said on the House floor. “This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he ‘takes inspiration’ from a black civil rights activist. This article attempts to discredit this teacher because he ‘admires’ a professor that taught at a historically black college for women.
https://thinkprogress.org/two-black-arizona-legislators-reprimanded-for-speaking-out-racial-slur-f710ddf5508c/
So in the Arizona legislature and it's illustrious leader..............thinks its just fine and dandy to normalize hate................
"The majority of the Republican-controlled House voted to formally rebuke both Bolding and Peten for violating House decorum."
FUCK YOU republicans, I mean really FUCK YOU
Is Griffin Perry cashing in on his dads cabinet position the way the Trump family does?
Energy Secretary's son launches new oil and gas investment fund.
JOE ROMM APR 26, 2018, 2:58 PM
The Trump Organization and the president’s children have made profiting from his office such standard operating procedure, that the media barely notice when one of his cabinet secretary’s family does something just slightly less scandalous.
But the fact that Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s son launched a new fund last week for wealthy but undisclosed investors to take stakes in oil and gas drilling projects should be raising all kinds of alarm bells. Griffin Perry is a co-founder and managing director of Grey Rock Energy Partners. One of his focus areas is “investor relations.”
On April 19, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published Grey Rock’s new regulatory filing for Energy Fund III-B (and III-A) — the company’s first funds launched since Griffin’s father became Trump’s Secretary of Energy. Griffin Perry signed the filings as the funds’ manager and ultimate general partner.
Red flags should be flying. This kind of investment fund does not have to disclose to the SEC either the names of the wealthy investors or how much they are investing. Government audits are rare and not made public. This makes “possible conflicts of interest nearly impossible to spot,” as McClatchy revealed Tuesday.
https://thinkprogress.org/griffin-perry-cashing-in-cabinet-position-like-trump-family-54bb16614cbb/
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Back in 2007 when he was Governor of Texas, Perry and his then 23-year-old son both faced accusations of conflict of interest over the Governor’s proposed sale of the Texas Lottery. In February of that year, the Houston Chronicle reported that Griffin Perry “had secured a job at UBS, the investment banking firm that the governor has consulted on the lottery proposal.”
UBS stood to make some $100 million if it brokered the sale — and its vice chairman had a PAC that once gave $610,000 to Perry’s campaign .
The fucking apple does not fall far from the corrupt tree....................
November 2018 cannot get fast enough
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