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Thanks, Michelle Obama! Students Everywhere Are Tweeting Their Grossest Lunch Pics

TheWake UpCall 0 Michelle Obama, Students 4:14 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First Lady Michelle Obama has made headlines when by pledging to support “healthier” school lunches and exercise programs in a quest to end childhood obesity, but if these pictures are any indication, we may end up launching a war on anorexia in the near future instead.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids across the country have taken to the social media site Twitter in protest of poor quality school lunches, sharing pictures and capturing enough attention to send the hashtag (topic) #ThanksMichelleObama toward the top of the trending topics list.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While some schools are implementing promising new programs such as <a href="http://althealthworks.com/4295/minnesota-districts-pledge-to-remove-gmos-from-school-food-in-new-effort-to-support-kids-long-term-health/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s ease; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s ease;" target="_blank">this district in Minnesota that’s removing GMO ingredients</a>, others continue to serve some of the mystery “foods” you’ll see in the pictures below.</span></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eight of the Worst Lunch Pics from #ThanksMichelleObama</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;">1. The Lonely Hot Dog-</strong> In this case a bun-less meal might actually be an improvement, since most of them contain high fructose corn syrup and even “yoga mat” chemicals. But the lack of a bun makes the hot dog itself stand out, and that is not a good thing.</span></div>
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Thanks, Michelle Obama! Students Everywhere Are Tweeting Their Grossest Lunch Pics

First Lady Michelle Obama has made headlines when by pledging to support “healthier” school lunches and exercise programs in a quest to en...

30,000 students homeless just in Washington state

TheWake UpCall 0 Students, Washington DC 8:36 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than 30,000 students in Washington state are homeless, according to new findings from the state superintendent’s office. That’s nearly 50 percent more than six years ago.<br /><br />A total of 30,609 students were counted as homeless by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. It’s not just kids living on the street, but anyone who does not have a stable place to go at night. That can include kids living in abandoned buildings, shelters, motels and campgrounds, or with friends and relatives.<br /><br /><br />The number is up 11.8 percent since the 2011-12 school year and 47.3 percent from 2007-08.</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 22px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2008-09:  20,780</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The state said it’s hard to tell at a state level why the increase has happed, but suggests that lack of housing or a major employer moving out a region may contribute. Educators say homelessness can contribute to health problems, absenteeism and failure to graduate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />Washington state receives about $950,000 in federal money each year to help homeless students with things like transportation, tutoring, school supplies and other educational services, the state says.</span></div>
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30,000 students homeless just in Washington state

More than 30,000 students in Washington state are homeless, according to new findings from the state superintendent’s office. That’s near...

Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on Facebook

TheWake UpCall 1 Students 4:10 PM

<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The National Union of Israeli Students (NUIS) has become a full-time partner in the Israeli government’s efforts to spread its propaganda online and on college campuses around the world.</div><br />
<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NUIS has launched a program to pay Israeli university students $2,000 to spread pro-Israel propaganda online for 5 hours per week from the “comfort of home.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img height="300" src="https://mnn.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/image/0000/0000/0612/full_1c1b44da-b201-4a18-8fc3-15e9c8fd3fd8.JPG" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The union is also partnering with Israel’s Jewish Agency to send Israeli students as missionaries to spread propaganda in other countries, for which they will also receive a stipend.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This active recruitment of Israeli students is part of Israel’s orchestrated effort to suppress the Palestinian solidarity movement under the guise of combating “delegitimization” of Israel and anti-Semitism.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The involvement of the official Israeli student union as well as Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University and Sapir College in these state propaganda programs will likely bolster Palestinian calls for the international <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/academic-boycott" style="border: 0px; color: #000066; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">boycott of Israeli academic institutions</a>.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.4em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Paying students to spread Israeli propaganda online</h2><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 1.5em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is our opportunity, as Israeli students, to provide hasbara [state propaganda] that is correct and balanced, to help in the struggle against the delegitimization of the State of Israel and against hatred of Jews in the world.</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That is one of the exhortations in a <a href="http://www.oranim.ac.il/sites/heb/SiteCollectionImages/aguda/documents/antishemiut.pdf" style="border: 0px; color: #000066; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hebrew document issued by NUIS</a>, and <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook#NUISinternet" style="border: 0px; color: #000066; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">translated by The Electronic Intifada</a>, inviting Israeli students to apply for a program to help spread Israel’s message.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The project seeks to take advantage of the fact that “Many students in Israel master the Internet and are proficient at using the Internet and social networking and various sites and are required to write and express themselves in English.”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The paid scholarship will allow them to get training and then work from home for five hours per week for a year to “refute” what it calls “misinformation” about Israel on social networking sites.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Among the stated goals of the scholarships is “to deepen and expand <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hasbara</em> activities of students in the State of Israel.” The document explains:</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 1.5em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

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<script type='text/javascript' src='http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a2b34d3a-e07c-4678-a7a8-346319aafab6&size=728x90'></script> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Internet allows uncontrolled access to content from marginal groups and therefore can influence many audiences who are exposed to such information, particularly young people who are more easily influenced.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Internet, then, is used as a major tool for the dissemination of anti-Semitism, hatred of Israel and of Jews and thus the Internet is also the place to battle against such sites, pull the ground from under them and to provide reliable and balanced information.</strong></div></blockquote><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 3em 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Work from the “comfort of home”</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The NUIS program document explains:</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 1.5em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After training, the student will begin his activities. The student will do the activities in the comfort of his home, where every week he will be obligated to about 5 hours of activities for a period of one calendar year (not academic year). Students will be paid a total of NIS 7,500 [$2,000] to perform the tasks of the project, at least 5 hours weekly for a total of 240 hours of activities under the project umbrella.</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What is completely missing from the program is any indication that criticism of Israel could be valid. Rather the National Union of Israeli Students apparently seeks to indoctrinate Israeli students that every criticism of Israel is “hate” and “anti-Semitism” and that the Internet should be seen as a battlefield on which they are foot soldiers.</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 3em 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Using e-learning tools for government propaganda</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An interesting aspect of the NUIS program is that it uses the common open source virtual learning environment <a href="http://moodle.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #000066; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Moodle</a> as its interface with program participants. This interface can be found at <a href="http://students.digitalchange.co.il/" style="border: 0px; color: #000066; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">students.digitalchange.co.il</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whereas Moodle was designed for education – to spread mind-opening learning beyond the constraints of geography – the Israeli innovation here is to use it for mind-narrowing propaganda: getting students to be <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">un</em>critical, to <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> think for themselves, but rather to spread Israel’s state-sponsored propaganda.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 24px; margin: 2.4em 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See the world, spread more propaganda</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NUIS has also partnered with the Jewish Agency, the Israeli state body that encourages Jews from around the world to settle on stolen Palestinian land, to spread propaganda on college campuses around the world.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://shlichut.org.il/%D7%9E%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%AA-%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%D7%93%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%95%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%97%D7%93%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%98/" style="border: 0px; color: #000066; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jewish Agency website announces</a>, as <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook#shacham" style="border: 0px; color: #000066; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">translated from Hebrew</a> by <a href="http://hebrew.shunra.net/" style="border: 0px; color: #000066; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dena Shunra</a> for The Electronic Intifada:</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; line-height: 24px; margin: 1.5em; padding: 0px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For the first time in Israel – a unique, world-encompassing scholarship, in cooperation between the Student Union and the Jewish Agency.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Every year the Jewish Agency of Israel sends approximately 150 emissaries to various places around the world - North America, England, South Africa, Australia, Germany, Italy and South America, who engage in Jewish education and <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hasbara</span> in three main streams - Hillel emissaries (to campuses around North America), community emissaries and youth movement emissaries.</div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Training for these overseas missions for successful applicants will take place at Haifa University, Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University and Sapir College, after which the would-be missionaries “will set off for a one-year mission in the various Jewish communities around the world, and will also receive a scholarship of up to NIS 5,000 [$1300].”</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Applications are open to Israeli citizens who have lived in the country for three years, those who have completed service in the Israeli army, and those who speak foreign languages, among other criteria.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn more:</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook">http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israeli-students-get-2000-spread-state-propaganda-facebook</a><br />
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