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To say Charlie Chaplin was popular is like the Pacific Ocean is wet.

It is difficult for us to even imagine the immense fame and celebrity he enjoyed in the 1920s and ’30s. Today we know the names of literally thousands of celebrities, personalities, sports stars and news-makers (Why do they call them “stars?” Because there are so many!) But at the dawn of the 20th century, mass media was just being created. Movies were brand new. Baseball was just becoming the national pastime. Radio was just taking its first tentative steps and TV was 50 years away.

Into this world strolled a genius at his art form. Charlie just had an innate understanding of comedy and how to make movies.

Fatty Arbuckle and Mary Pickford were the first major movie stars but Charlie Chaplin soon eclipsed them and everyone else. He literally had no competition. Even today, Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd are well-regarded, but Chaplin is still considered the all-time master at silent movie comedy and silent movies in general.

Unfortunately, Charlie’s leftist politics and less-than-puritan personal life (he had the unfortunate habit of marrying teenagers) finally started to eclipse even his movie fame during the cold-war era. Mixed with the fact that he could never regain his silent-movie fame in the talkies, he finally left America all-together in 1952. At the time he was being accused of being a Communist (untrue) and he had his visa revoked by the American government (he was a British citizen.)

He vowed never to return to the United States, saying “I have no further use for America. I wouldn’t go back there if Jesus Christ was president.”

Well, since Jesus never became president (at least as far as we know) he decided to return during the reign of the “other guy.” In 1972, during the presidency of Richard Nixon, Charlie made a triumphant return to accept a Lifetime Achievement Oscar at the Academy Awards.

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There is one particular scene on one particular movie that I would like anyone who has ever voted Democratic to watch. The movie is a documentary about the cartel that runs the education system, specifically in New Jersey. The scene is about a lottery drawing for slots in a charter school showing the faces of children whose names have been drawn, and those who were not so lucky. Both are in tears, but are crying for different reasons. The scene focuses on a child weeping for her loss.

The scene was criticized by New York Times movie critic Jeannette Catsoulis as something that resulted from “emotional coercion,” as if the director had found an exceptionally gifted young actor who could cry on his signal instead of just being at the right place at the right time. The critic goes on to say that the movie was “a bludgeoning rant against a single state.”

I like to think that it would be unlikely for anyone without any personal or political stake in the cartel’s control over the education system to watch that particular scene without being moved. Although it is not something new for both students and teachers to fall victim to a system that does not allow teaching and learning to take place in many schools, the way the director presents his points seem like nobody has yet to act on the activities of the cartel. The sad fact is that these activities contribute to the increasing cases of students leaving school unprepared to work in the real world.

Since the movie came out, people have finally started making efforts to keep themselves informed about how more funding for public schools has helped in buttressing their failures. Shortly after publishing Jeannette Catsoulis’ review on the documentary, New York Times reported that a record number of residents of New Jersey rejected 58% of the budgets during the school-budget elections. They resented the teachers’ unions for not concurring to concessions and were angry about higher property taxes to compensate for lessened state aid. The residents have finally started stripping their apathy towards the corrupt system.

As depressing as it may sound, it seems that in New Jersey, education budgets are no longer held as something sacred anymore. Driven by that fact, Governor Christopher J. Christie took on the teachers’ unions as no previous New Jersey Governor has done before. Although it may seem like his efforts in fighting the education cartel pales in comparison to his devil-may-care approach on some of the other issues he is tackling.

It is worth to note that at the beginning of the film, the director’s credibility to tackle such a powerful issue is immediately established-after all, doesn’t being a local TV reporter in New Jersey carry more reliability in exposing the truth than any other profession?

The director also makes it easy for the audience to understand the flurry of statistics concerning education funding by the government, tax revenues, comparisons of New Jersey educational outcomes with other states and other countries, and so on.

The New Jersey teachers are in a panic now, as evidenced by this movie and the countless reports about how they are berating Governor Christie. Hopefully, the movie does not inspire only the cartel on education to act, but also those who have yet to do something about alleviating it. We owe the countless children who feel exactly the same as the weeping child in the movie that much.

Westfield Patch: The Cartel Movie comes to Westfield again. A film by Bob Bowdon.

There is definitely something wrong when a state has the resources to allocate at least $400,000 worth of funds to a single classroom yet the educational capability of its students is dismally low. Is it some sort of educational cartel? Seems like it.

The statistics themselves are enough to dishearten anyone… nearly 80% of graduates from high school who actually manage to take up further schooling in college need some form of remedial lessons. Students who enter college should already be capable enough already academically as long as their fundamentals are sound. If that was not bad enough, the current educational system is the main culprit for this shortcoming.

A saying goes that the youth are the hope of tomorrow. However, there is a small problem with this particular statement. How can there be a tomorrow if the youth aren’t well equipped enough to handle the challenges ahead because of sub-standard schooling? It makes for a very provocative thought indeed.

Take for example The New Jersey Education Association, whose responsibility it is to ensure quality education for the students of New Jersey. This group is a teachers union with lots of political clout and influence. Unfortunately, the union has gained a notorious reputation for merely enriching its members over properly educating the students under their care. Allegations of misusing state funds for personal enrichment is just one of the numerous problems attributed to this group. This is a group, which acts more like a cartel than a respectable body of educators.

What follows is a short detail of one of the recently discovered exposes involving one of its members. One school district secretary was found to have been making more than what she should be receiving. The sum amounts to a staggering $180,000 annually. How did this happen? It is quite simple. Closeness to the education cartel is to blame.

Sacrificing the minds and opportunities for growth of the students cannot be acceptable under any circumstance. It has reached the point that unqualified and underperforming teachers are still on the payroll because of their association with this education cartel. Those who are qualified and actually have the guts to speak out against the group find themselves in a very difficult position. Their very act of doing so can even cost them their careers.

Disheartening isn’t it? When educators who stand for what is right for the students are systematically removed what hope can there be for the existing educational system? It is a type of corruption that prioritizes personal profit over nation-building and improving lives.

However, not all is lost. There are charter schools whose mission is to uplift the quality of education and they have done a consistently good job in outperforming the state-run district schools. One would think they would be receiving better state or government support for their efforts but the sad case is the opposite. The very same educational bureaucrats make it hard for these charter schools to progress any further simply because they are a threat to their well-entrenched positions. At this rate, more young minds will continue to languish in substandard education unless the tax-paying public does something about this.

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There seems to be a dilemma in the educational school system cartel in New Jersey as was presented in a documentary. This should be seen by many especially those living in the said state and are Democrat fans. In the movie, there was a draw lotting scene for places in the Charter School. There were two faces being shown. One is the faces of parents with their children who have won places in the school crying for joy and the other one is the faces of parents and kids who were not able to make it crying in despair.

This scene was heavily criticized as conspicuously offensive. The depiction was a quite outraging showing victims of an educational system that is flawed and at the same time an example of the filmmaker’s emotional duress to those who have acted on the movie .The camera should have concentrated on real life tragedy instead.

The state of New Jersey has made it of utmost importance to provide wages of its mentors and directors instead of prioritizing other more important undertakings. Every state dweller is conscious of the errors circling in the school cartel but remain complacent. Instead, they continue to offer more allocations to the general institute managed by the union of teachers who took advantage of the situation and make big money out of it.

People who do not know the extensive immorality of the New Jersey teacher’s coalition will find it difficult not to be affected when looking at the scenario. Mentors and students in sub-urban cities have always been sufferers of atrocities made by people who do not give importance to schooling and trainings. It was depicted in the film as something that is new and not even a part of the American society.

When people started to become cognizant of the situation, they are now eager to be informed on public allocation in education. More than 50% of the budget recommendations were discarded when the New Jersey residents had their school appropriations elections. They were infuriated with the high cost of tariffs for personal properties to patch up lowered support in bigger communities as was introduced by the governor.

After the state is economic downturn concurrent with the budget shortage, the school’s allocation is inviolate no more. The chief of the state was forced to scrutinize on the teacher’s coalition with the assistance of non-government units. However, his efforts may be reassuring to many it was seen as timid.

The motion picture began with the filmmaker making his assertions of his excellence in making such repugnant remarks. As a news anchor of a television company, he assures himself that he is capable to make those remarks. Other people would think otherwise but what matters that at the end of the debate, we come to terms that there are still media men who see things in its right perspective and not just trust on social needs and aspirations of a certain group or culture.

It was also vivid in the documentary the disordered data of revenues in taxes, educational allocation, and the different educational consequences compared to other communities. This film serves as a manifestation of how efficient movie making can be in showing the faults of a school system cartel and to make those who committed such offense stop and pay. A child now has every right to education without prejudice in order to be successful in their future endeavors.

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The education system in America is working right, says Bob Bowdon, however just for some — and those few surely aren’t the students. In his docudrama “The Cartel,” New Jersey TV news reporter Bowdon shines a light on the corruption and avarice that has resulted in the disappearing of so much taxpayer money in that state. The numbers divulge the tale: $17,000 spent per student, and at hand’s only a 39% reading proficiency rate, it’s unpleasant to argue that there’s a crisis afoot, but harder to agree on a solution.

The two sides of this struggle meet head-on in interviews throughout Bowdon’s film: there are the teachers union and school board members who have managed to allocate 90 cents of every taxpayer dollar into everything but teachers’ salaries — whilst some school administrators make upwards of $100,000. On the other side are the supporters of a charter education system, private schools in which parents can use tax vouchers to pay tuition and evade the public nightmare. In those unkept public schools, Bowdon points out, it’s practically unacceptable to fire an instructor — so even a bad one has a trade for life.

“The documentary examines lots of distinctive aspects of public education, tenure, funding, patronage drops, corruption –meaning theft — vouchers and charter schools,” says Bowdon. “And as such it sort of serves as a swift-moving primer on all of the hot topics amongst the education-reform effort.”

Bowdon’s documentary started touring the festival circuit in summer of 2009 and made its theatrical debut in April 2010. Hopefully it will get a boost, and not be overshadowed, by the more recently released documentary “Waiting for Superman,” by “An Inconvenient Truth” director Davis Guggenheim. Bowdon sees the two documentaries as taking different approaches to the equal predicament, “The Cartel” by examining public policy and “Superman” centering on the human interest aspects. “The two films make interchangeable conclusions,” Bowdon says.

The left-brained manner means arguments that watch the economics — money misspent, opportunities wasted. He follows the money to make conclusions around how crooked the Jersey school system is, but his film features moments of high emotion and heartbreak. A girl’s weeping upon hearing that she wasn’t selected to attend a charter school, that she’s stuck in her public school, represent the failure of a system as well as Bowdon’s charts and interviews.

It’s hard to catch a movie about corruption in Jersey and not think of the mob, but it’s also obvious that this is a national dilemma seen through a tight lens. Bowdon’s film illustrates a local predicament, but any watcher will realize the systems of system failure in their own state’s schools. Bowdon comes out in favor of the charter school plan, of taxpayers being able to select their own schools, to get out from under the state’s control. But “The Cartel” also shows us how hard it’s going to be to get that control back from those who’ve found it so profitable.

The Cartel Movie, by filmmaker Bob Bowdon.

The education method in America is working superbly, says Bob Bowdon, but only for a few — and those few surely aren’t the students. In his education docudrama “The Cartel,” Bowdon, a TV news reporter in New Jersey, paints a notable ugly impression of the institutional corruption that has resulted in very nearly incredible wastes of taxpayer money. It’s not toilsome for Bowdon to exemplify that something’s execrably amiss with a state that pays $17,000 per student but can only manage a 39% reading proficiency rate — that there’s a crisis is undeniable, how to deal with it is another question entirely.

The two sides of this struggle meet head-on in interviews throughout Bowdon’s film: there are the teachers union and school board members who have managed to set aside 90 cents of every taxpayer dollar into everything but teachers’ salaries — though a quantity of school administrators receive upwards of $100,000. On the other side are the supporters of charter schools — private schools that can work beyond the influence of what Bowdon calls The Cartel. One of Bowdon’s main criticisms is that a teacher, even a shoddy one, fundamentally can’t be fired — which provides zero incentive to do much literal instruction.

From the Heart and Mind

“The film examines lots of different aspects of public teaching, tenure, backing, patronage drops, corruption — meaning thievery — vouchers and charter schools,” says Bowdon. “The label education documentary might sound to some like dull squared, but in fact the movie itself betrays an fervent passion for the predicament of particularly inner-city children.”

The documentary first appeared on the festival circuit in summer 2009, appearing in theaters nationally a year later. Hopefully it will get a rise, and not be overshadowed, by the more recently released documental “Waiting for Superman,” by “An Inconvenient Truth” director Davis Guggenheim. Bowdon sees the two documentaries as taking alternative approaches to the equal problem, “The Cartel” by examining public policy and “Superman” focusing on the human-interest aspects. “My movie is the left-brained version, more analytical,” Bowdon says, “‘Waiting for Superman’ is more the right-brained treatment.”

Less Than the Sum of its Parts

And Bowdon’s movie is relentlessly critical, making a powerful case for the opinion that the amount of money spent is nowhere near as crucial as how it is spent. But that isn’t to say the movie is without heart. Bowdon makes sure his eye is at all times on the people affected, especially the inner-city students trapped in a shattered system. One girl, crying after learning she wasn’t selected in a lottery for a charter school, tells the story of What Went Wrong as well as Bowdon’s arguments.

And though there’s a satire in this kind of public depravation happening in a state notable for its organized crime, it’s unambiguous that this is not an isolated collapse. Any spectator will acknowledge the failings of their own state’s education system and the battle for control. The one he seems to be most behind is the charter schools, which take the reins from the unions and give them back to the taxpayer. But he also knows it’ll be an upward struggle to regain control from those who’ve worked so hard to make education very profitable for the very few.

The Cartel, a documentary by Bob Bowdon.

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When one gets overwhelmed with politics, often one can find political satire videos a great release. In response, a number of such videos have been released online, on BluRay, DVD, and VHS over the last several decades. Some of the best of these include videos related to various ballot initiatives, presidential campaigns and other associated political concerns.

As such, many of these clips have not only been used in videos for fun but also in campaign ads and general advertising. So, while different groups create and broadcast such videos, one may want to assure one is viewing political videos with which one aligns politically. For, while most satire is accepted as humor, there are those who can be sorely severely when attacked by such an ad, especially without notice.

Still, there are a number of great political videos which exist on various websites such as Jib-Jab, YouTube and others. As such, all one has to do to find a wide variety of such comical videos, is type political satire videos into any search engine, then click on any links which one may find of interest. After which, one can then often link to to similar videos from the one which one had previously selected as is the case with most YouTube videos.

Of course, the attacks, comments and visuals in such ads are generally also what creates the humor aspect found in same. As such, often creators walk a fine line between humor and lawsuit when developing and broadcasting such material. So, if one is planning on creating and posting ads in such regard, one may want to be cautious and even go as far as having those mentioned in the video review same to avoid any such issues.

For, while most material aimed at individuals observed in such ads is only meant in relation to humor, a number of individuals have taken offense and pressed lawsuits in relation to such videos. As such, although these videos can be quite funny, especially those related to George W. Bush and ongoing issues in California, one must be careful that everything within such a broadcast is accurate. Otherwise, one can face several fees, fines and lawsuits in association with such broadcast.

To this end, there are a number of hilarious political satire videos which related to various areas of politics. As such, one may want to assure that those viewing such material are old enough to understand the concept of satire. For, in doing so, one can assure that all such material is received in the way the creators of such material intended, which is often comedy, satire and nothing more.

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I’m a owner of a small business and a regular investor of stocks and other financial instruments. As you can expect, keeping ahead of what’s happening in the market and the economy is something that I need to do. However, time’s usually not on my side. It’s common to have an inadequate amount of sleep, much less enough time to watch the news or read the newspapers.

It’s catastrophic for me when I end up getting my news from my friends, and it’s absolutely disastrous if it’s something that happened days ago. It’s a pet peeve too, if I go to a dinner party and realize that I have no clue what the dinner conversation’s about. It’s not so much the embarrassment, but more of the annoyance that the snide “You mean you hadn’t heard about that yet?” comments create.

Politics is an iffy subject. The problem with it is that so many people are strongly opinionated about it, and the columnists are no exception. It takes a lot for a magazine to adhere to strict journalistic principles and deliver good, factual articles. Only one publication that I have read so far does this, and it’s The Week. In fact, my friend and I have differing political views, and we both love this magazine!

It is because of reasons like these that make me source around for ways to help me make use of my time more productively. I’m a huge fan of time management techniques such as the Pomodoro technique. Named after “tomato”, it’s a pretty good way to ensure that you focus on the task at hand, and rewards you with breaks at set intervals.

I also like concise summaries and accurate, factual reporting, and because of my time pressures, I have also cancelled most of my magazine and newspaper subscriptions. I find that most of them are just garbage and they only serve to take up my time anyway. What I need is an unbiased viewpoint that gives me the facts in a fast manner, and most publications that I read fail miserably at this, save for a few – The Week being one of them. If you value your time, and appreciate honest, unbiased reporting, then I highly recommend The Week magazine as a huge time-saver for yourself.

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War movies are unlike any other type of film. They can be scary, fun, intense, uplifting, inspirational and filled with gore all at the same time. What other genre of films can you say that about? Over the years, there have been some absolutely sensational films covering the subject of war.

In my opinion, the following are some of the greatest war movies of all time. Forrest Gump does not count.

I have to include Braveheart on this list. Even though I cannot stand Mel Gibson any longer, I can’t let him get the best of me and ruin this film. It is just too good. An absolute masterpiece and a must see for anyone who likes epic films.

Also starring an actor that may not be my favorite person, but can surely deliver a role as good as anyone, is Russell Crowe as the role of Maximus in Gladiator. This may be Joaquin Phoenix’s best role as well as Commodus. This is an iconic villain if we have ever seen one.

Schindler’s List is probably the most upsetting movie I have ever seen. Spielberg delivers on all accounts with this film that plays out more like a documentary than an original work. If you are looking for a World War II-based film that will change your way of thinking, this is it.

How to pick from the myriad great movies regarding subject matter from the Vietnam War? My personal favorite movie regarding Vietnam is Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. I love everything about this movie, as it gives a terrifying look to the shock and trauma that Vietnam had on many of its soldiers.

When it comes to films about the Civil War, it does not get better than Glory. This film stars Denzel Washington in one of his greatest roles of all time. This is a character building film.

As it stands, these are the movies that I deemed worthy of making the list. A follow up article will be released soon with some other great ones.

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