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1.5.16 11:17 - Master of Puppets

Skolās vaig mācīt metālu - kkur paralēli darbmācībai un kultūras vēsturei. Man nācās apgūt pašmācībā, un vēl tikai tagad jāatklāj būtiskas pērles un piegājieni.
Mazliet kompensēju šo sistēmas kļūdu, kad 12. klasē "skolotāju dienas" ietvaros ar visu savu mandātu ievirzījos mūzikas kabinetā, atradu maģi, teicu sīčiem, lai sameklē papīru un zīmuļveidīgos, uzliku vienu no savām kasetēm un devu ilustrēt, ko viņi tur dzird. Tā gan bija Metallica, nevis Cannibal Corpse, bet ar to mietpilsoniskajam skolas setingam pilnīgi pietika. Bija daudz egļu un vilku, metālistu ar ģitārām meža estrādēs, daudz labu atzīmju un vispārējas līksmes. Lūk, varbūt ir vērts turpināt. Piemēram, aizvest skolniekus uz saimniecības šķūni, uzlikt kārtīgu desmetālu un aicināt izpausties ar kapļiem un motorzāģiem. I dārziņš būtu iekopts, i putnu būri uzstutēti.

11.2.16 00:23 - Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars

In conclusion, the objective of economic research, as conducted by the magnates of
capital (banking) and the industries of commodities (goods) and services, is the
establishment of an economy which is totally predictable and manipulatable.
In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the low-class elements of society must
be brought under total control, i.e., must be housebroken, trained, and assigned a yoke
and long-term social duties from a very early age, before they have an opportunity to
question the propriety of the matter. In order to achieve such conformity, the lower-class
family unit must be disintegrated by a process of increasing preoccupation of the parents
and the establishment of government-operated day-care centers for the occupationally
orphaned children.
The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the
moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains
incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower
class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot
in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintain some measure of social order, peace,
and tranquility for the ruling upper class.

[..]

Everything that is expected from an ordinary weapon is expected from a silent weapon by
its creators, but only in its own manner of functioning.
It shoots situations, instead of bullets; propelled by data processing, instead of chemical
reaction (explosion); originating from bits of data, instead of grains of gunpowder; from a
computer, instead of a gun; operated by a computer programmer, instead of a marksman;
under the orders of a banking magnate, instead of a military general.
[..]
The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but that is because of the
technical nature of the silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way,
or handle the problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to cry for help,
and do not know how to associate with others to defend themselves against it.

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Science and Health


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Tufts OpenCourseWare – Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts’ course offerings demonstrate the University’s strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.

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UC San Diego Podcast Lectures – UCSD’s podcasting service was established for instructional use to benefit our students. Podcasts are taken down at the end of every quarter (10 weeks Fall-Spring and 5 weeks in the summer). If you’re enjoying a podcast, be sure to subscribe and download the lectures. Once the podcast has been taken offline, faculty rarely approve their reposting.

Johns Hopkins OpenCourseWare – The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OpenCourseWare project provides access to content of the School’s most popular courses. As challenges to the world’s health escalate daily, the School feels a moral imperative to provide equal and open access to information and knowledge about the obstacles to the public’s health and their potential solutions.

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative – No instructors, no credits, no charge. Use these self-guiding Carnegie Mellon materials and activities to learn at your own pace.

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The Science Forum – A very active scientific discussion and debate forum.

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Science.gov – Science.gov searches over 42 databases and over 2000 selected websites from 14 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.

The National Science Digital Library – NSDL is the Nation’s online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.

EnviroLink Network– A non-profit organization, grassroots online community uniting organizations and volunteers around the world. Up-to-date environmental information and news.

Geology.com – Information about geology and earth science to visitors without charge: Articles, News, Maps, Satellite Images, Dictionary, etc.

Scitable – A free science library and personal learning tool that currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. The site also expects to expand into other topics of learning and education.

LearningScience.org – A free open learning community for sharing newer and emerging tools to teach science.


Business and Money


MIT Sloan School of Management – MIT Sloan is a world-class business school long renowned for thought leadership and the ability to successfully partner theory and practice. This is a subsection of the larger MIT OpenCourseWare site.

Investopedia Financial Investing Tutorials – A plethora of detailed lessons on money management and investing.

U.S. Small Business Administration Training Network – The Small Business Administration has one of the best selections of business courses on the web. Topics include everything from starting a business and business management to government contracting and international trade. Most courses take only 30 minutes to complete.

VideoLectures.NET (Business) – A free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.

My Own Business, Inc. – Offers a free online business administration course that would be beneficial to new managers and to anyone who is interested in starting a business. This comprehensive course is split up into 16 sessions covering topics like business plans, accounting, marketing, insurance, e-commerce and international trade.

UC Irvine OpenCourseWare (Business) – Rapidly with the addition of nearly 10 new courses every month. Many of our OCW offerings are directed at working adults seeking continuing education, with the option to enroll in instructor-led, for-credit courses, related to the OCW content.

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania – The Kutztown University of Pennsylvania’s Small Business Development Center offers more than 80 free business courses online. Kutztown’s courses are individualized and self-paced. Many of the courses feature high-end graphics, interactive case studies and audio streams.

Boston College Front Row (Business) – Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College.

Financial Management Training Center – The Financial Management Training Center provides several free downloadable business courses for people who need to learn the finer points of financial management. All courses offered can be taken online; courses include full exams as well as evaluation forms for people seeking Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits.

The Free Nonprofit Micro-eMBA – Free Management Library’s Free Nonprofit Micro-eMBA Program is an especially great resource for students wishing to learn more about nonprofit management, but most of the lessons also apply to general business management. Completion of this program will not result in an MBA degree, but enrollment is free and the material is well structured.

Bookboon Free Business e-books – Hundreds of free business books online in PDF format.

TheStreet University – If you’re just starting out as a stock and bond investor or need a refresher’s course, this is the place to learn what you need to know.


History and World Culture


University of Washington’s OpenUW – Explore a variety of learning in several free history-centric online courses from the University of Washington.

Notre Dame OpenCourseWare – Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

Bio’s Best – Biography.com’s most popular biographies on notable historical figures.

UC Irvine OpenCourseWare (Social Science) – Rapidly with the addition of nearly 10 new courses every month. Many of our OCW offerings are directed at working adults seeking continuing education, with the option to enroll in instructor-led, for-credit courses, related to the OCW content.

Boston College Front Row (History) – Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College.

MIT OpenCourseWare (History) – The MIT History Faculty offers about 70 subjects in the areas of Ancient, North American, European, East Asian, and Middle Eastern history.

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OpenLearn (Arts and Humanities) – The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials.

A Biography of America – A Biography of America presents history not simply as a series of irrefutable facts to be memorized, but as a living narrative of America’s story.

Have Fun with History – A resource for students, educators and all lovers of American History.

The USGenWeb Project – Free genealogy and family history resources online.

MacroHistory and World Report – Tell without illusions or ideological restraints the story of our ancestors, our parents and us.

World History HyperHistory – Navigates through 3000 years of World History with links to important persons and events of world historical importance.

American Digital History – Online American history textbook. An interactive, multimedia history of the United States from the Revolution to the present.


Law


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Boston College Front Row (Law) – Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College.

American University – Offers a selection of podcasts on a number of different law-related subjects. There is even a very interesting podcast on debt relief and the law.

Lewis & Clark Law School – Provides a number of podcast from the law school. Subjects include tax law, business law, environmental law and other areas of law. Interesting and insightful lectures on the law.

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Stanford Law – Provides open courseware via iTunes on a variety of law subjects, including the theory of justice, mobile content distribution, gay marriage, judicial review and privacy protection. The tracks are available for free, but you’ll need iTunes. Put the lectures on your iPod or iPhone and listen them anywhere.

MoneyInstructor Business Law – From MoneyInstructor.com provides a look at a number of basics in business law. Learn how to define crimes under business law. Worksheets and curriculums are available for teachers. Ordinary folks will find them useful as well.

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Wikiversity School of Computer Science and Technology – Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.

New York State University (US), Computer Science – Hundreds of lectures, tutorials and links to educational material.

Dream.In.Code Tutorials – Lots of computer programming tutorials.

MIT OpenCourseWare (Engineering and Computer Science) – MIT OpenCourseWare is a free web-based publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.

Maine University (US), Fogler Guide to Computer Science – An insanely detailed list of computer science resources.

FreeComputerBooks.com – Free computer, mathematics, technical books and lecture notes.

Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies – A massive collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science, updated weekly from original locations, more than 3 millions of references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports), clustered in about 2000 bibliographies.

W3Schools – Web-building tutorials, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP.

FreeTechBooks.com – This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.

Free computer Tutorials – Free computer courses and tutorials site. All the courses are aimed at complete beginners, so you don’t need experience to get started.

Programmer 101: Teach Yourself How to Code – Several helpful resources for computer programming beginners.

Google Code University – Provides sample course content and tutorials for Computer Science (CS) students and educators on current computing technologies and paradigms.


Mathematics


Oxford University Mathematics OpenCourseWare – Various online mathematics classes provided free by Oxford University.

UMass Boston Mathematics – Various online mathematics classes provided free by UMass Boston.

Whatcom Online Math Center – Various math lessons provided free by Whatcom Community College.

VideoLectures.NET (Mathematics) – A free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science.

Wikiversity School of Mathematics – Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.

AMSER Mathematics – AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.

Math.com – Math.com is dedicated to providing revolutionary ways for students, parents, teachers, and everyone to learn math.

Intute Mathematics – Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorized by subject specialists based at UK universities.

Free-Ed College Mathematics – Offers a wide range of free online math courses and study programs.


English and Communications


Open Yale Courses (English) – Open Yale Courses provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the internet.

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students – These guidelines for engineering writing and scientific writing are designed to help students communicate their technical work.

MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies – The MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies gives students the opportunity to learn the techniques, forms, and traditions of several kinds of writing, from basic expository prose to more advanced forms of non-fictional prose, fiction and poetry, science writing, scientific and technical communication and digital media.

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National Novel Writing Month – Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

Lifewriting – A complete text of the 9-week writing class a professor taught for years at UCLA.

Guide to Grammar and Writing – Grammar and writing techniques, lessons and quizzes.

Purdue Online Writing Lab – Over 200 free resources including lessons on: writing, research, grammar, and style guides.


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American Sign Language Browser – Teach yourself sign language online.

Livemocha – Start learning a new language online for free.

Learn10 – Gives you a language learning habit that’s hard to kick. 10 new words; everywhere, every day.

One Minute Languages – Learn a new language via podcasts that are updated regularly.

Mango Languages – Over 100 lessons, shown to you in PowerPoint style with interstitial quizzes, to move you through any language without cracking a book.


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Capilano University OpenCourseWare – The Capilano University OpenCourseWare site is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

University of Southern Queensland’s OpenCourseWare – Provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

YouTube EDU – Educational videos on YouTube organized by subject matter.

LearnHub Test Prep – Raise your test scores with free practice tests & counseling on various subjects.

iTunes U – Hundreds of universities — including Stanford, Yale and MIT — distribute lectures, slide shows, PDFs, films, exhibit tours and audio books through iTunes U. The Science section alone contains content on topics including agriculture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, ecology and geography.

United Nations University OpenCourseWare – Showcases the training and educational programs implemented by the University in a wide range of areas relevant to the work of the United Nations.

Brigham Young Independent Study – BYU Independent Study now offers free courses in different areas of study. These areas include Family History, Family Life, and Religious Scripture Study, Personal Dev elopement, etc. Use these courses as a starting point for your personal studies or just to add insight to an area of interest.

University of Utah OpenCourseWare – Provides access to free and open educational resources for faculty members, students, and self-learners throughout the world.

United States Nation Archives – The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation’s record keeper. Valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran’s military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you.

Wikiversity – Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.

UMass Boston OpenCourseWare – Various online classes provided free by UMass Boston.

About U – A collection of free online educational courses from About.com.

Academic Earth – Online degrees and video courses from leading universities.

Free-Ed – Clusters of courses that support your preparation for today’s fastest-growing careers and critical academic disciplines.

Connexions – A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.

TED – Motivational and educational lectures from noteworthy professionals around the world.

Intute – Provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.

Boston College Front Row – Boston College Front Row is a Web site that offers free access through streaming media to tapes of cultural and scholarly events at Boston College.


Free Books and Reading Recommendations


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Textbook Revolution – Links to free online textbooks and other educational materials.

Book TV – This is the companion site to Book TV on C-Span2. The site holds some current interviews with authors, many past interviews, opinions, reviews, and featured programs through online video.

Bookboon – Bookboon provides online textbooks for students in PDF format. The free ebooks can be downloaded without registration. Our books are legal and written exclusively for Bookboon. They are financed by a few in-book ads.

Scribd – Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.

BookYards – BookYards is a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be freely to anyone who has an internet connection.

Planet eBook – Free classic literature to download and share.

E-Books Directory – Thousands of ebooks on various subjects to download and share.

Read Print Library – Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.GoodReads – Get great book recommendations and keep track of what you want to read.

The Online Books Page – University of Pennsylvania database with over 30,000 books.

Public Literature – Thousands of familiar classics, children’s books, plays and poems, as well as books by new authors.

Full Books – Thousands of full-text nonfiction and fiction books.

Many Books – Free fiction and nonfiction ebooks for your PDA, iPod or ebook reader.

Get Free Books – Thousands of free ebooks to download.

Project Gutenberg – More than 20,000 free books from the first producer of free e-books.

Bibliomania – Thousands of classic books, poems, short stories and plays.

Classic Reader – Large collection of free classic books, plays, and short stories from more than 300 authors.

Bartleby Fiction – Classic anthologies and volumes.

The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List – MBA programs don’t have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work. The Personal MBA features the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours of research.

Books Should Be Free – Free audio books from the public domain.


Educational Mainstream Broadcast Media


BBC Learning – Online learning, support, and advice. This site offers internal and offsite links to a vast amount of materials.

Biography – The site holds videos to past interviews and biographies on people in topics that range from Black history to women’s history.

Book TV – This is the companion site to Book TV on C-Span2. The site holds some current interviews with authors, many past interviews, opinions, reviews, and featured programs through online video.

CBC Archives — Relive Canadian history through thousands of available radio and television clips.

Discovery — This channel is home to several different networks that focus on the military, animals, travel, etc. The Discovery site offers a “Video of the Day” from its home page, a separate online video section, and a Discover Education center where teachers can accumulate materials for K-12 teaching. It’s impossible to list all their offerings here, so go discover!

History Channel – Visit the Video Gallery for a selection on historical topics. Like the Discovery Channel, this network provides many opportunities for you to gain access to information and reference materials.

NOVA — Watch current science shows or browse by category. PBS sponsors this channel.

Research Channel — Speakers, researchers and professors present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries. Use their Webstreams and an extensive video-on-demand library for research.

Weather Channel – You can learn about weather all over the world, but the Weather Channel also offers dynamic content based upon seasons and special conditions and a special multimedia and education section.


Online Archives


American Memory – The Library of Congress provides extensive multimedia offerings on various topics through their American Memory Collection, including their outstanding Built in America project that showcases historical buildings through photographs.

Fathom – This archive, provided by Columbia University, offers access to the complete range of free content developed for Fathom by its member institutions. The archives include online learning resources including lectures, articles, interviews, exhibits and seminars.

Internet Archive Open Educational Resources – A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.

National Archives – Provides primary source materials from NARA along with lesson plans for teaching with those sources.

National Climatic Data Center – The NCDC, a division of NOAA, maintains climatic archives, including lists of storms in given counties, and records about global extremes, etc.

The Rosetta Project – A global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building a publicly accessible online archive of all documented human languages.

September 11 Digital Archive – This site uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the 9/11 attacks.

U.S. Census Bureau – If you think the Census Bureau is all about numbers, you might be surprised to learn about their archived photographs, daily radio features, and more available through theirNewsroom.


Directories of Open Education


Google Scholar – Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

OpenCourseWare Consortium – This site provides a portal to search through hundreds of free courses or to add new courses you know about to the database.

iBerry – Check out this site for a huge directory of open courseware organized by school and subject matter that can point you in the right direction for any type of learning.

Self Made Scholar Directory – Free online directory of web-based classes and courses.

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1. ALISON – over 60 million lessons and records 1.2 million unique visitors per month

2. COURSERA – Educational website that works with universities to get their courses on the Internet, free for you to use. Learn from over 542 courses.

3. The University of Reddit – The free university of Reddit.

4. UDACITY – Advance your education and career through project-based online classes, mainly focused around computer, data science and mathematics.

5. MIT Open CourseWare – Free access to quite a few MIT courses that are on par with what you’d expect from MIT.

6. Open Culture – Compendium of free learning resources, including courses, textbooks, and videos/films.



7. No Excuse List – Huge list of websites to learn from.

8. Open YALE Courses – Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University All lectures were recorded in the Yale College classroom and are available in video, audio, and text transcript formats. Registration is not required

9. Khan Academy – Watch thousands of micro-lectures on topics ranging from history and medicine to chemistry and computer science.

10. Zooniverse – Take part in a huge variety of interesting studies of nature, science, and culture.

11. TUFTS Open CourseWare – Tufts OpenCourseWare is part of a new educational movement initiated by MIT that provides free access to course content for everyone online. Tufts’ course offerings demonstrate the University’s strength in the life sciences in addition to its multidisciplinary approach, international perspective and underlying ethic of service to its local, national and international communities.

12. How Stuff Works? – More scientific lessons and explanations than you could sort through in an entire year.

13. Harvard Medical School Open Courseware The mission of the Harvard Medical School Open Courseware Initiative is to exchange knowledge from the Harvard community of scholars to other academic institutions, prospective students, and the general public.

14. VideoLectures.NET – the title says it all – amazing video lectures on many topics.

15. TED – Motivational and educational lectures from noteworthy professionals around the world.

16. Shodor – A non-profit research and education organisation dedicated to the advancement of science and math education, specifically trough the use of modeling and simulation technologies. Included in this site are instructional resources, software, interactive lessons, explorations and information about workshops for students, teachers and learners of all ages on mathematics and science. Make sure you check Shodor Interactive – a great collection of interactive math, geometry, fractal, probability, algebra and statistics activities.

17. Udemy FREE Courses – hundreds of experts teach on Udemy every month including New York Times best-selling authors, CEOs, Ivy League professionals and celebrity instructors. Courses include video, live lectures and tools to help teachers interact with students and track their progress. There are many free courses that can teach you business, law, programming, design, mathematics, science, photography, yoga and many more.

18. Maths & Science – Courses, tests and learning materials about mathematics and science for students from 1 to 12 grade.

19. edX.org – Free courses designed specifically for interactive study via the web, provided by MIT, Harvard, Barkley, Georgetown, Boston University, University of Washington, Karolinska Institute, Kyoto University and many more.

20. iTunes U – Apple’s free app that gives students mobile access to many courses. It offers many free video courses, books, presentations and audio lectures.

21. Liberty Classroom – Owned by bestselling author Tom Woods. Offers some free courses in history and economics, but at the price of one movie ticket a month you can gain access to a lot of useful information. Not completely free, but totally worth it…

22. Drawspace – Hundreds of free drawing lessons.

23. Codeacademy – Easy way to learn how to code. It’s interactive, fun and you can do it with your friends.

24. Duke U – Duke offers variety of free courses on iTunesU.

25. Scitable – A free science library and personal learning tool that currently concentrates on genetic, the study of evolution, variation and the rich complexity of living organisms.

26. My own business – Offers free online business administration course that would be beneficial to new managers and to anyone who is interested in starting a business.

27. Kutztown University’s free courses – The Kutztown University of Pennsylvania’s Small Business Development Center offers more than 80 free business courses online. Kutztown’s courses are individualized and self-paced. Many of the courses feature high-end graphics, interactive case studies and audio streams.

28. Open Learn – Gives you free access to Open University course materials.

29. Free Computer Books – Free computer, mathematics, technical books and lecture notes.

30. Academic Earth – Free video lectures from the world’s top scholars.31. American Sign Language Browser – Teach yourself sign language online

32. BBC Languages – Teach yourself a new spoken language online.

33. unplugthetv – Randomly selects an educational video for you to watch.

34. Lifehacker – Learn to hack life! Tips and tricks for improving all areas of your life.

35. JustinGuitar – Hundreds of free guitar lessons as well as some basic music theory.

36. DuoLingo – Learn a new language for free while helping to translate the web.

37. Layers Magazine - Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Premiere Pro, In Design and After Effects tutorials.

38. Creative Flow – list of OVER 950 Photoshop tutorials to keep your skillset up to date.

39. Open2study – Open2Study delivers free, high-quality education online. You can study subjects with real value, and in just four weeks you can learn something new, explore the next step in your career, challenge yourself or simply satisfy your curiosity. These subjects are provided by leading Australian institutions, and are taught by academics and leading industry professionals who love to teach. All you need is an internet connection and the desire to study.

40. OEDb – Choose from over 10,000 free online classes

30.6.14 20:44

29.6.14 03:10 - littlerature

Valsts skola vs. Dzīves skola
kas kam gatavo[jas]

21.6.14 11:30 - No pain, no gain!

Muļķīgi, ka cilvēki uzskata sevi par civilizētiem tikai tāpēc, ka piedzimst pasaulē, kura par tādu tiek saukta.

28.5.14 12:10 - Visiem kļūtu labāk, palasot Maizes kungu

Esošais vienmēr ir būtiskāks par neesošo. Patiesība vienmēr ir būtiskāka par meliem. Funkcionējošais vienmēr ir būtiskāks par iztēloto.
"Kolektīvs", "valsts", "mēs" - cik tas neraksturo kādas no vairāk vai mazāk tagadniskajām realitātēm - ir tikai iegansts tam, lai kāds "es" "drīkstētu" aplaupīt citus "es". Tā kā vairums cilvēku lielāko daļu savas "sapratnes" par pasauli gūst skolā, tad realitāte tiem ir visnotaļ sveša. Tāpēc retā kārtā vnk ielikšu linku uz samērā īsu rakstu par elementārām ekonomikas patiesībām, kuras ir tik sāpīgi acīmredzamas un tik bezkaunīgi slēptas, ka uz pastāvošās netaisnības ("sociālās/"varas" iekārtas") fona uzskatu par samērā nepieciešamu vismaz piespēlēt iespēju ieraudzīt (ja ne saprast), no kurienes nāk lielais vairums problēmu (trūkums, apātija, bezpalīdzība, naivums, nemākulība, izmisums utt.).

Why the Cost of Government is Higher Than You Think

Varbūt tas nav pats izsmeļošākais raksts, toties tas ieskicē konkrētus lielākās problēmas - "valsts" - aspektus.

14.3.14 13:33 - www.gov.edu

Mūsu sabiedrība darbojas pēc pakāpju iniciācijas principa, un, jo augstāk cilvēks kāpj, jo dziļāk cilvēku indoktrinē. Jo lielāki augstumi, jo lielākas bailes krist - līdz pat zemei, kur varas vertikāles fiktīvi nekustamajiem īpašumiem nav vērtības.

Patiesība nav slepenas zināšanas. Okultisms ir tieši tā sistēma, kas sākas ar 5 bērnudārza ložas grupiņām, kurai seko 5 pakāpes pamatskolā, vēl 4 līdz "pamatizglītībai", tad vēl 3 līdz "vidējai izglītībai", un tad savu lojalitāti iekārtai var apliecināt arī tālāk dažādās ložās pieņemtajā kārtībā, piemēram, pa 3 un 2 gadiem, un doktors, kā tāda 33. goda pakāpe, iegūstams jau apliecinot reālu pienesumu hierarhijas apzinātai un tīšai stiprināšanai.
Tā nu "izglītoti"/indoktrinēti sektanti, nespēdami domāt ārpus tetraedra, nav spējīgi uztvert gaismu, kas viņu apgraizītajos leņķos lūst. Bet no ārpuses tā piramīda nav nekas vairāk kā stikla cietums tiem, kas dzīvo ar muguru pret gaismu.

Lai redzētu īstenību, ir tikai jāskatās. Zināšanas un sapratne skatu paplašina. Bet sektantiskā "izglītības sistēma" principā izskauž spēju redzēt. Lai gan no tā stinguma iekšienes, protams, izskatās, ka visi neakadēmiskie spēki "nespēlē pēc noteikumiem" un tāpēc būtībā neko nevar saprast. Pasniedzējs tomēr deva kko citu!
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