-By Larry Sand
To a large extent, the progressives have taken over American education, are transforming it and are doing it in plain sight
Indoctrination: How ‘Useful Idiots’ Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism is an invaluable book written by Kyle Olson, founder and CEO of the Education Action Group, an organization that is on the frontline of education reform and a champion of school choice.
In this brief and very readable book, Olson describes the ways that the progressives in our society have taken over K-12 education. They have been running most of our elite colleges and schools of education for years now and this step is in keeping with their plan to transform America.
As a public school teacher whose career spanned four decades, I have seen the long march first hand. Perverting the traditional purpose of American education (which has been to make better and more educated citizens), progressives have been inspired by the theories of Paolo Freire, a Brazilian socialist who saw everything through a Marxist class warfare lens.
Carrying Freire’s mantle, current gurus like revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers and the recently deceased Communist Howard Zinn have been behind the effort to destroy America as we know it. They claim that basically the U.S. and its capitalist system are the root of all evil. Unfortunately, their love-the-world/hate-America attitude has gained an incredible amount of currency in our public schools in a relatively short time. Ayers, Zinn and their ilk have essentially managed to convince much of the education establishment to abandon every teaching technique and curriculum that benefited prior generations. For example, “drill and kill” has been thrown on the refuse heap; we are now supposed to let our students “discover” learning. The “sage on the stage” has been replaced by the “guide on the side.” The only problem with these techniques is that they haven’t worked, but they do sound good (at least to the progressives.) As such, we are now raising a nation of dunces.
On the 2010 NAEP history test, we learned that only 12 percent of high school seniors have a firm grip on American history. Yes, we are educating students to the point that almost half the nation thinks that the cornerstone of Communism, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” is in the U.S. Constitution. Only 2 percent of high school seniors know the significance of Brown vs. the Board of Education and only 4 percent of 8th graders could explain why urban populations rose and rural populations shrank over time.
So just what are we teaching them?
This is where Olson’s book shines. In chapter after chapter, he meticulously details lessons being foisted on students that are being taught for one purpose only – to advance the progressive agenda. A few examples:
- An examination of the nature and extent of police brutality, which is being promoted in middle schools by none other than Van Jones, conspiracy enthusiast extraordinaire.
- A clever lesson using poker chips, the aim of which is to convince students that unequal distribution of wealth has to do with the fact that the U.S. has more than its share of resources, not that we have a wealth-promoting capitalist system.
- “I Pledge Allegiance to the Earth.” Yup, no more of this silly patriotic stuff. Children, you are denizens of the earth! (I wonder what our political enemies think of this rubbish… when they stop laughing, that is.)
Rightfully, Olson reserves a special section for the unions whose far left agenda has been well documented, and who have gone to great lengths to make this country over in their own image. Their attempts to indoctrinate kids and glorify the union movement are staggering. For example,
- “Trouble in the Henhouse: A Puppet Show.” In this charming bit of propaganda put out by the California Federation of Teachers aimed at kindergartners, we find an oppressive farmer whose hens unionize and convince the heartless farmer that he’d better respect them or else.
- The “Yummy Pizza Company” is another lesson from CFT — actually ten, which delve into the process of organizing a union local. They include instructions on how to collectively bargain as well as a sanitized look at prominent labor leaders.
- Click Clack Moo, a popular book promoted by the AFL-CIO, tells second graders about unhappy cows that refuse to work until the mean farmer is forced to meet their demands.
And while we are teaching our children the joys of class warfare, earth worship and the importance of union membership, other countries that are more serious about educating their young are cleaning our clocks in every international comparison available.
Actually, it is even worse than Olson suggests. There is one aspect of the progressive takeover that he gave short shrift to. Except for SB 48, an obscene bit of legislation in California which will bring the contributions of homosexuals and transgenders into the K-12 curriculum, there is little mention of the progressives’ ongoing effort to sexualize children. From Gay-Straight clubs in middle school (where parents do not have to be notified of their child’s involvement) to attempts to teach orgasm to eleven year olds, the radicals led by the National Education Association have been making alarming progress.
Another example of the progressives’ sexual agenda is which holidays are deemed important. Few people are aware of what holiday is celebrated on November 20th. But every student at the middle school where I worked till my retirement in 2009 knows, because the school spent more time acknowledging that day — “Transgender Day of Remembrance” — than Veteran’s Day, November 11th. TDR was considered more worthy of the students’ time at my school than a holiday which acknowledges the contributions of American soldiers. (Maybe this shouldn’t be surprising. At the same school, posters of Che Guevara adorned the walls of no less than five classrooms, including an American history class that had no pictures of Washington or Lincoln. Che was considered a hero by these teachers who passed this admiration on to their impressionable students. Of course the real life Che was a sadistic mass murderer, but being a progressive means never having to sweat minor details like the truth.)
Clearly Indoctrination is a book that could leave citizens in a state of great despair. But fortunately, in the last chapter, Olson lists several important ways that parents and the general public can fight back. And if this country isn’t to become permanently transformed — fight back we must. None of our international enemies are as powerful, organized and, thus far, as successful as our home grown progressives who are bent on destroying public education as we know it in America. It is imperative that we all become more knowledgeable about what is going on in our schools and take action. Kyle Olson’s Indoctrination is an excellent place to start that process.
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
10 Certainties
November 21, 2011 by Bob Livingston
www.personalliberty.com
We live in strange times. Millions of Americans are out of work. Millions more live in fear that their job could go away at any time. The food stamp rolls are larger than they've ever been.
An untold number are homeless, not because they choose to be or because they suffer from some mental disease or defect, but because they have lost everything in the second Great Depression. And many more are one missed paycheck or one delinquent mortgage payment away from finding themselves on the street.
A growing number of young adults are now living with their parents or other relatives. Unable to find a decent job despite possessing a college diploma, tens of thousands leave college mired under an irrepressible and unmanageable debt burden.
Protests that began in the Middle East earlier this year over rising food prices and food shortages evolved and spread throughout the region and now find themselves smack in the middle of America in the form of the Occupy movement.
Our country suffers from an amoral rot. Secular humanism, nontheism, atheism and other humanist philosophies are attempting to elevate the creature above the Creator. As such, a belief that the end justifies the means is consuming society. It's become, "Anything goes."
Where America is headed is anybody's guess. I think we are in store for a complete collapse of the system, because there are 10 things that are certain.
We should never underestimate the ignorance of the American voter.
After all, they elected Barack Hussein Obama, a man who openly campaigned on an anti-American socialist philosophy and had the least experience, fewest qualifications, thinnest resume and shadiest past of any serious Presidential candidate in United States history.
Of course, the alternative was really no alternative. That's the way the elites wanted it. And now the global elites and their corporate media propaganda machine are deciding again who will be elected - and the American voter, with nary a whimper, follows blindly along, accepting that a two-horse race between Mitt Romney and some neocon anti-Romney are the only choices we have.
The trouble has been in selecting the anti-Romney. So far, Michele Bachmann's star fizzled like a New Year's sparkler, Rick Perry fell off his horse after he insulted most Republicans over illegal immigration in one debate and stepped on his tongue in two others, Herman Cain's stock has begun dropping faster than Sharon Bialek's perky mood in the back of a limo - as much because of Cain's incoherent answers to tough questions as over the dubious sexual harassment claims - and now Newt Gingrich is the rising neocon star.
The same Newt Gingrich who twice (at least) cheated on his wives (he's had three) while they suffered from serious illnesses. The same globalist, Council on Foreign Relations member, pagan ritual Bohemian Grove attendee Newt Gingrich who sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi in an advertisement hawking the threat of man-caused global warming, who has a penchant for cozying up with people like race huckster Al Sharpton when it's politically expedient and then denouncing them later, who devised the original government-growing Contract with America, who endorsed RINO (later to turn Democrat) Dede Scozzafava over a Tea Party candidate, who called Congressman Paul Ryan's deficit reduction plan right-wing social engineering, who said the Tea Party will be the "militant wing" of the GOP, and who we now know looted American taxpayers of between $1.6 million and $1.8 million as a "historian" for the Freddie Mac corporatist slush fund (although Gingrich remembers only about $300,000 of it).
And this is the same Newt Gingrich who once called for a Federal mandate to purchase health insurance, endorsed "cap-and-trade" legislation, said he would have voted for TARP and promoted Bush's prescription drug bill. He also continues to support ethanol subsidies and is pro-amnesty for illegals.
That Gingrich, with all his baggage and pompousness, can be an attractive candidate to people who call themselves conservatives, tells you all you need to know of the ignorance of the average voter. And this ignorance continues because…
There is a concerted effort by the establishment to defeat Ron Paul.
It's gotten so overt that even the corporatist media propaganda machine is chastising its own members over their treatment of Paul. It all seemed to come to a head after the Nov. 12 CBS News debate in which Paul got 89 seconds to speak during the only televised hour of the debate.
In addition to the snubs, which have left Paul with the least speaking time in all the debates - even much less than Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum, who are barely registering in the polls - networks have a habit of taking down or dismissing as irrelevant any polls that show Paul doing well. Despite it all, Paul is in a virtual tie for first in Iowa and is a strong second in New Hampshire, a State that Romney will probably carry hands-down. And Paul is polling the best of all Republican candidates against Obama with independent voters.
The media and political elites fear Paul because he has not been corrupted and will expose that…
Government is a criminal enterprise.
News this week that members of Congress have been involved in unethical, if not illegal, insider trading based on information they possess before anyone else or on laws they know are about to be considered is just one more straw to put in the camel's pack. How many more can that poor camel hold before the American people really wake up?
We have long told you here about the crony capitalism and fascism that infest the capital. And while Congress, former Congressional staffers and big businesses dip into the money-printing till and pass dollars around like the Monopoly® money it is, bureaucrats, paper pushers, statist judges, on-the-take regulators, Department of Justice thugs, Congress and an increasingly-militarized Federal government create dozens of new statutes and regulations because…
The Federal Government wants to make everyone a criminal.
Just last week, it was announced that the Department of Justice wanted to criminalize lying to a website. So, if you violate the "Terms of Use" policy by fibbing on online dating sites, social networks, etc., you could become a felon. The government wants to treat those terms as contracts.
In his book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, Harvey A. Silverglate writes that "federal prosecutors are abusing their power by using the criminal law to prosecute law abiding citizens…" They are seizing illegal power by twisting marginal and highly questionable interpretations of criminal law.
We are in danger of becoming a society in which prosecutors alone become judges, juries and executioners because the threat of high sentences makes it too costly for even innocent people to resist the prosecutorial pressure. The pattern is to intimidate all criminally charged defendants into pleading guilty to "reduced" charges rather than risk going to trial with the threat of draconian sentences in the implied event of conviction. And remember, government prosecutors have unlimited funds to use to pay an unlimited number of lawyers and investigators to spend an unlimited number of hours to snoop, dig and scratch around in every aspect of a citizen's business, thanks to the USA Patriot Act.
No trial? This means that the Federal prosecuting attorney is the judge and the jury.
We now have a huge volume of Federal criminal laws which are broad and impossibly vague, and Silverglate believes it's possible the average citizen unknowingly violates at least three of them every day. They have become dangerously disconnected from English common law tradition. And since most Federal judges are selected from a pool of former Federal prosecutors, it's rare if ever that a judge rules against the government's case.
Liberty-loving Americans are now considered the enemy of the State. The Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies have issued memos and directives describing who they see as potential "domestic" terrorists. They include military veterans - both retired and those returning from overseas engagements - Tea Party supporters, Ron Paul supporters, 2nd Amendment supporters, 10th Amendment supporters, people who display American flags, people with Gadsden Flag bumper stickers, anti-Obamacare protesters and anyone who advocates for smaller government.
But this is only part of our government's war on us because…
Government creates crises and uses them to steal liberty and transfer wealth.
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush and Congress acted quickly to pass overarching laws that allowed increased surveillance of Americans. The meme was that law enforcement agencies needed increased "power" to snoop, spy, eavesdrop and invade in order to identify terrorists. With the passage of the law, government has almost carte blanch to go anywhere, look at anything and listen to whatever it wants on any and all conversations, transactions and correspondence Americans have. And Americans can no longer travel without subjecting themselves to radiation-emitting scans or humiliating searches.
Meanwhile, the FBI infiltrates mosques, Muslim communities, militias and other "subversive" groups looking for ignorant patsies they can turn into potential terrorists. They then provide them with dummy bombs or weapons and ridiculously ineffective plans for terror plots and wait for them to try to pull them off.
These "terror plots" give the government more excuses to intrude on civil liberties.
With the bursting of the housing bubble (created by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's easy-money policies), Bush, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke went on television claiming the sky was falling and predicted the end of the world if "government" didn't bail out Goldman Sachs, AIG and their other corporatist buddies in the financial sector. We got the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and Bush claimed he had "abandoned free-market principals to save the free-market system."
What really happened is that trillions of dollars were transferred from hard-working Americans to the coffers of big business and big finance, both in the United States and abroad. Of course, there is nothing new about this. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the Great Depression to reward his labor friends and grow government's power under the interstate commerce clause. And while Americans starved, thousands of farmers were forced by the government to destroy crops and livestock.
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Roosevelt began issuing executive orders by the handfuls, locking up Americans without cause and stealing liberty, wealth and prosperity from citizens in the process.
But this is not the history that people are taught. And schoolchildren certainly never hear in school that…
The Federal Reserve is looting your bank account right out from under your nose.
Few people have a real understanding of just how insidious the Federal Reserve and inflation are. But no matter where you hide your money, through its money-printing, the Federal Reserve steals a portion every day.
That's because every dollar printed reduces the value of those you hold. Think of it like pouring water into a glass of milk. The more water that is poured in, the less milk remains. Pretty soon, there is no milk left.
Right now the official rate of inflation is about 3.5 percent. It is, in fact, much higher. But the highest-paying interest rate on a certificate of deposit is about 1.1 percent. You do the math.
Face it. The system is stacked against you because…
Financial interests control the world.
Of course, that has long been the ultimate goal of the elites. They have been, throughout history, ruthless and unwavering in their efforts. They are the true 1 percent.
I and others have long warned about the growing power of the financial elites. We write often about their growing power and the increased fascism of the system. Now a group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have uncovered the 147 "super-entities" that control the world's wealth, according to an article in New Scientist.
Here's a list of the Top 25. See any familiar names?
"From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs (transnational corporations) and the share ownerships linking them. Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company's operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power," according to the report.
"When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a 'super-entity' of 147 even more tightly knit companies-all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity-that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. 'In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,' says [researcher James] Glattfelder."
Now you see why the buddy system operated so well when the Fed began bailing out the "too big to fails." And the big corporations got there with the help of their corporatist partners in crime in Congress.
The truth of the matter is…
We are no longer operating under Constitutional government, but people are completely unaware.
The government-controlled non-education system, corporate-controlled media and government propaganda machine have succeeded in producing an uneducated generation that is so ignorant it doesn't even know it's ignorant and, therefore, can't do anything about it.
Rather than teach history, government indoctrination centers focus on less-significant, politically correct characters - in order to prop up the self-esteem of the "underpriviledged" and "underrepresented" - and singular, historically insignificant events. One specific example I know of is of a middle-school child whose teacher spent three class days on the U.S. Olympic hockey team's upset of the Soviets in 1980, and about 15 minutes of class time on World War II.
Of course, a discussion of the founding of our country, the conditions that sparked the revolution, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution that resulted from their discussions, or the greatness of the Founding Fathers received little or no attention in that class. I'm afraid it's the rule rather than the exception.
Ask someone on the street about the Constitution and you'll probably get some lame answer about "separation of church and state" or "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," like Herman Cain gave in one of his speeches.
And rather than work to gain knowledge of the country and its politics, most would rather devote their time to voting for the next "Idol" and debating who should get voted off the island and whether college football should have a playoff. These and other unimportant events completely consume the general public.
So when government does pass new unConstitutional laws, no one is the wiser. Most people are concerned about - if they think about it all - "what's in it for me?" and "how much 'free' money do I get?" Many are still waiting for the "free money" from "Obama's stash." Unfortunately, because they weren't large corporate donors, they got nothing but disdain from the teleprompter in chief.
Congress, aided by a willing Judiciary and President, long ago left any pretense of governing according to the Constitution. When they're sworn in, they pledge their fealty to it, then put it away never to be read again.
Meanwhile, the two-party system of governance entraps people who do pay a modicum of attention into a false left/right paradigm and the corporate-controlled government propaganda machine pushes the false notion that there is a difference between the parties. But Democrat or Republican is irrelevant. It's all class warfare, dissembling Kabuki Theater.
To demonstrate how far we've traversed from the Constitution, the government can now prevent you from drinking raw milk, can force you to have your children vaccinated for non-existent maladies, can search you without cause, can arrest you for videotaping in public, can murder American citizens at will and can twist and turn obscure statutes and use them to incarcerate and fine you.
The Federal agencies designed to protect us from bad foods and bad drugs instead promote bad foods and bad drugs and make natural foods and supplements illegal or difficult to obtain. That keeps Americans fat and happy and stupid.
In addition to loving the increased power they get by ignoring the Constitution, it's a fact that…
Politicians love war and an attack on Iran is inevitable.
War is yet another way for government to steal the liberty of the American people, and war with Iran is inevitable, Obama's Nobel Peace Prize notwithstanding. The drumbeats for war are reaching a crescendo, and the same rhetoric used in the run-up to the Iraq war is being replayed in the run-up to Iran.
The frightening thing is that the anti-war Democrats have gone silent. Some protested loud and long over Bush's wars, but Obama has been given a pass - by Congress and the American people - to invade any country he chooses over the most dubious of reasons. And it seems from the cheering the neocon warmongers get during the Republican debates, Americans have grown to love war as much as the politicians.
Sources tell me U.S. Marines will be on the ground in Libya in January, news reports indicate a Marine contingent will soon land in Australia, and Obama recently sent "military advisers" to Central Africa. The French just recalled their diplomat from Syria, an indication a Libya-style attack is in the offing. This is all proof that…
The American government is seeking world conquest.
The globalists and One World Government crowd will not rest until all the world is in subjection. Moammar Gadhafi was taken down because he wouldn't play in the OWG pool, and Syria and Iran are next. The Marines going to Australia will be a foil to China. Then, who knows?
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We live in strange times. Millions of Americans are out of work. Millions more live in fear that their job could go away at any time. The food stamp rolls are larger than they've ever been.
An untold number are homeless, not because they choose to be or because they suffer from some mental disease or defect, but because they have lost everything in the second Great Depression. And many more are one missed paycheck or one delinquent mortgage payment away from finding themselves on the street.
A growing number of young adults are now living with their parents or other relatives. Unable to find a decent job despite possessing a college diploma, tens of thousands leave college mired under an irrepressible and unmanageable debt burden.
Protests that began in the Middle East earlier this year over rising food prices and food shortages evolved and spread throughout the region and now find themselves smack in the middle of America in the form of the Occupy movement.
Our country suffers from an amoral rot. Secular humanism, nontheism, atheism and other humanist philosophies are attempting to elevate the creature above the Creator. As such, a belief that the end justifies the means is consuming society. It's become, "Anything goes."
Where America is headed is anybody's guess. I think we are in store for a complete collapse of the system, because there are 10 things that are certain.
We should never underestimate the ignorance of the American voter.
After all, they elected Barack Hussein Obama, a man who openly campaigned on an anti-American socialist philosophy and had the least experience, fewest qualifications, thinnest resume and shadiest past of any serious Presidential candidate in United States history.
Of course, the alternative was really no alternative. That's the way the elites wanted it. And now the global elites and their corporate media propaganda machine are deciding again who will be elected - and the American voter, with nary a whimper, follows blindly along, accepting that a two-horse race between Mitt Romney and some neocon anti-Romney are the only choices we have.
The trouble has been in selecting the anti-Romney. So far, Michele Bachmann's star fizzled like a New Year's sparkler, Rick Perry fell off his horse after he insulted most Republicans over illegal immigration in one debate and stepped on his tongue in two others, Herman Cain's stock has begun dropping faster than Sharon Bialek's perky mood in the back of a limo - as much because of Cain's incoherent answers to tough questions as over the dubious sexual harassment claims - and now Newt Gingrich is the rising neocon star.
The same Newt Gingrich who twice (at least) cheated on his wives (he's had three) while they suffered from serious illnesses. The same globalist, Council on Foreign Relations member, pagan ritual Bohemian Grove attendee Newt Gingrich who sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi in an advertisement hawking the threat of man-caused global warming, who has a penchant for cozying up with people like race huckster Al Sharpton when it's politically expedient and then denouncing them later, who devised the original government-growing Contract with America, who endorsed RINO (later to turn Democrat) Dede Scozzafava over a Tea Party candidate, who called Congressman Paul Ryan's deficit reduction plan right-wing social engineering, who said the Tea Party will be the "militant wing" of the GOP, and who we now know looted American taxpayers of between $1.6 million and $1.8 million as a "historian" for the Freddie Mac corporatist slush fund (although Gingrich remembers only about $300,000 of it).
And this is the same Newt Gingrich who once called for a Federal mandate to purchase health insurance, endorsed "cap-and-trade" legislation, said he would have voted for TARP and promoted Bush's prescription drug bill. He also continues to support ethanol subsidies and is pro-amnesty for illegals.
That Gingrich, with all his baggage and pompousness, can be an attractive candidate to people who call themselves conservatives, tells you all you need to know of the ignorance of the average voter. And this ignorance continues because…
There is a concerted effort by the establishment to defeat Ron Paul.
It's gotten so overt that even the corporatist media propaganda machine is chastising its own members over their treatment of Paul. It all seemed to come to a head after the Nov. 12 CBS News debate in which Paul got 89 seconds to speak during the only televised hour of the debate.
In addition to the snubs, which have left Paul with the least speaking time in all the debates - even much less than Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum, who are barely registering in the polls - networks have a habit of taking down or dismissing as irrelevant any polls that show Paul doing well. Despite it all, Paul is in a virtual tie for first in Iowa and is a strong second in New Hampshire, a State that Romney will probably carry hands-down. And Paul is polling the best of all Republican candidates against Obama with independent voters.
The media and political elites fear Paul because he has not been corrupted and will expose that…
Government is a criminal enterprise.
News this week that members of Congress have been involved in unethical, if not illegal, insider trading based on information they possess before anyone else or on laws they know are about to be considered is just one more straw to put in the camel's pack. How many more can that poor camel hold before the American people really wake up?
We have long told you here about the crony capitalism and fascism that infest the capital. And while Congress, former Congressional staffers and big businesses dip into the money-printing till and pass dollars around like the Monopoly® money it is, bureaucrats, paper pushers, statist judges, on-the-take regulators, Department of Justice thugs, Congress and an increasingly-militarized Federal government create dozens of new statutes and regulations because…
The Federal Government wants to make everyone a criminal.
Just last week, it was announced that the Department of Justice wanted to criminalize lying to a website. So, if you violate the "Terms of Use" policy by fibbing on online dating sites, social networks, etc., you could become a felon. The government wants to treat those terms as contracts.
In his book, Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, Harvey A. Silverglate writes that "federal prosecutors are abusing their power by using the criminal law to prosecute law abiding citizens…" They are seizing illegal power by twisting marginal and highly questionable interpretations of criminal law.
We are in danger of becoming a society in which prosecutors alone become judges, juries and executioners because the threat of high sentences makes it too costly for even innocent people to resist the prosecutorial pressure. The pattern is to intimidate all criminally charged defendants into pleading guilty to "reduced" charges rather than risk going to trial with the threat of draconian sentences in the implied event of conviction. And remember, government prosecutors have unlimited funds to use to pay an unlimited number of lawyers and investigators to spend an unlimited number of hours to snoop, dig and scratch around in every aspect of a citizen's business, thanks to the USA Patriot Act.
No trial? This means that the Federal prosecuting attorney is the judge and the jury.
We now have a huge volume of Federal criminal laws which are broad and impossibly vague, and Silverglate believes it's possible the average citizen unknowingly violates at least three of them every day. They have become dangerously disconnected from English common law tradition. And since most Federal judges are selected from a pool of former Federal prosecutors, it's rare if ever that a judge rules against the government's case.
Liberty-loving Americans are now considered the enemy of the State. The Department of Homeland Security and other government agencies have issued memos and directives describing who they see as potential "domestic" terrorists. They include military veterans - both retired and those returning from overseas engagements - Tea Party supporters, Ron Paul supporters, 2nd Amendment supporters, 10th Amendment supporters, people who display American flags, people with Gadsden Flag bumper stickers, anti-Obamacare protesters and anyone who advocates for smaller government.
But this is only part of our government's war on us because…
Government creates crises and uses them to steal liberty and transfer wealth.
In the days following the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush and Congress acted quickly to pass overarching laws that allowed increased surveillance of Americans. The meme was that law enforcement agencies needed increased "power" to snoop, spy, eavesdrop and invade in order to identify terrorists. With the passage of the law, government has almost carte blanch to go anywhere, look at anything and listen to whatever it wants on any and all conversations, transactions and correspondence Americans have. And Americans can no longer travel without subjecting themselves to radiation-emitting scans or humiliating searches.
Meanwhile, the FBI infiltrates mosques, Muslim communities, militias and other "subversive" groups looking for ignorant patsies they can turn into potential terrorists. They then provide them with dummy bombs or weapons and ridiculously ineffective plans for terror plots and wait for them to try to pull them off.
These "terror plots" give the government more excuses to intrude on civil liberties.
With the bursting of the housing bubble (created by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's easy-money policies), Bush, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke went on television claiming the sky was falling and predicted the end of the world if "government" didn't bail out Goldman Sachs, AIG and their other corporatist buddies in the financial sector. We got the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), and Bush claimed he had "abandoned free-market principals to save the free-market system."
What really happened is that trillions of dollars were transferred from hard-working Americans to the coffers of big business and big finance, both in the United States and abroad. Of course, there is nothing new about this. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the Great Depression to reward his labor friends and grow government's power under the interstate commerce clause. And while Americans starved, thousands of farmers were forced by the government to destroy crops and livestock.
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Roosevelt began issuing executive orders by the handfuls, locking up Americans without cause and stealing liberty, wealth and prosperity from citizens in the process.
But this is not the history that people are taught. And schoolchildren certainly never hear in school that…
The Federal Reserve is looting your bank account right out from under your nose.
Few people have a real understanding of just how insidious the Federal Reserve and inflation are. But no matter where you hide your money, through its money-printing, the Federal Reserve steals a portion every day.
That's because every dollar printed reduces the value of those you hold. Think of it like pouring water into a glass of milk. The more water that is poured in, the less milk remains. Pretty soon, there is no milk left.
Right now the official rate of inflation is about 3.5 percent. It is, in fact, much higher. But the highest-paying interest rate on a certificate of deposit is about 1.1 percent. You do the math.
Face it. The system is stacked against you because…
Financial interests control the world.
Of course, that has long been the ultimate goal of the elites. They have been, throughout history, ruthless and unwavering in their efforts. They are the true 1 percent.
I and others have long warned about the growing power of the financial elites. We write often about their growing power and the increased fascism of the system. Now a group of researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have uncovered the 147 "super-entities" that control the world's wealth, according to an article in New Scientist.
Here's a list of the Top 25. See any familiar names?
- Barclays PLC
- Capital Group Companies Inc.
- FMR Corp.
- AXA
- State Street Corporation
- JP Morgan Chase & Co.
- Legal & General Group PLC
- Vanguard Group Inc.
- UBS AG
- Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.
- Wellington Management Company LLP
- Deutsche Bank AG
- Franklin Resources Inc.
- Credit Suisse Group
- Walton Enterprises LLC
- The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
- Natixis
- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
- T. Rowe Price Group Inc.
- Legg Mason Inc.
- Morgan Stanley
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.
- Northern Trust Corporation
- Société Générale
- Bank of America Corporation
"From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs (transnational corporations) and the share ownerships linking them. Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company's operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power," according to the report.
"When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a 'super-entity' of 147 even more tightly knit companies-all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity-that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. 'In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,' says [researcher James] Glattfelder."
Now you see why the buddy system operated so well when the Fed began bailing out the "too big to fails." And the big corporations got there with the help of their corporatist partners in crime in Congress.
The truth of the matter is…
We are no longer operating under Constitutional government, but people are completely unaware.
The government-controlled non-education system, corporate-controlled media and government propaganda machine have succeeded in producing an uneducated generation that is so ignorant it doesn't even know it's ignorant and, therefore, can't do anything about it.
Rather than teach history, government indoctrination centers focus on less-significant, politically correct characters - in order to prop up the self-esteem of the "underpriviledged" and "underrepresented" - and singular, historically insignificant events. One specific example I know of is of a middle-school child whose teacher spent three class days on the U.S. Olympic hockey team's upset of the Soviets in 1980, and about 15 minutes of class time on World War II.
Of course, a discussion of the founding of our country, the conditions that sparked the revolution, the Federalist Papers, the Constitution that resulted from their discussions, or the greatness of the Founding Fathers received little or no attention in that class. I'm afraid it's the rule rather than the exception.
Ask someone on the street about the Constitution and you'll probably get some lame answer about "separation of church and state" or "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," like Herman Cain gave in one of his speeches.
And rather than work to gain knowledge of the country and its politics, most would rather devote their time to voting for the next "Idol" and debating who should get voted off the island and whether college football should have a playoff. These and other unimportant events completely consume the general public.
So when government does pass new unConstitutional laws, no one is the wiser. Most people are concerned about - if they think about it all - "what's in it for me?" and "how much 'free' money do I get?" Many are still waiting for the "free money" from "Obama's stash." Unfortunately, because they weren't large corporate donors, they got nothing but disdain from the teleprompter in chief.
Congress, aided by a willing Judiciary and President, long ago left any pretense of governing according to the Constitution. When they're sworn in, they pledge their fealty to it, then put it away never to be read again.
Meanwhile, the two-party system of governance entraps people who do pay a modicum of attention into a false left/right paradigm and the corporate-controlled government propaganda machine pushes the false notion that there is a difference between the parties. But Democrat or Republican is irrelevant. It's all class warfare, dissembling Kabuki Theater.
To demonstrate how far we've traversed from the Constitution, the government can now prevent you from drinking raw milk, can force you to have your children vaccinated for non-existent maladies, can search you without cause, can arrest you for videotaping in public, can murder American citizens at will and can twist and turn obscure statutes and use them to incarcerate and fine you.
The Federal agencies designed to protect us from bad foods and bad drugs instead promote bad foods and bad drugs and make natural foods and supplements illegal or difficult to obtain. That keeps Americans fat and happy and stupid.
In addition to loving the increased power they get by ignoring the Constitution, it's a fact that…
Politicians love war and an attack on Iran is inevitable.
War is yet another way for government to steal the liberty of the American people, and war with Iran is inevitable, Obama's Nobel Peace Prize notwithstanding. The drumbeats for war are reaching a crescendo, and the same rhetoric used in the run-up to the Iraq war is being replayed in the run-up to Iran.
The frightening thing is that the anti-war Democrats have gone silent. Some protested loud and long over Bush's wars, but Obama has been given a pass - by Congress and the American people - to invade any country he chooses over the most dubious of reasons. And it seems from the cheering the neocon warmongers get during the Republican debates, Americans have grown to love war as much as the politicians.
Sources tell me U.S. Marines will be on the ground in Libya in January, news reports indicate a Marine contingent will soon land in Australia, and Obama recently sent "military advisers" to Central Africa. The French just recalled their diplomat from Syria, an indication a Libya-style attack is in the offing. This is all proof that…
The American government is seeking world conquest.
The globalists and One World Government crowd will not rest until all the world is in subjection. Moammar Gadhafi was taken down because he wouldn't play in the OWG pool, and Syria and Iran are next. The Marines going to Australia will be a foil to China. Then, who knows?
http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/10-certainties/?eiid=&rmid=2011_11_21_PLA_[P11842499]&rrid=306924170
Friday, November 18, 2011
German memo shows secret slide towards a super-state
The six-page memo, by the German foreign office, argues that Europe’s economic powerhouses should be able to intervene in how beleaguered eurozone countries are run. The confidential blueprint sets out Germany’s plan to tackle the eurozone debt crisis by creating a “stability union” that will be “immediately followed by moves “on the way towards a political union”.
Full article at www.telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8898213/German-memo-shows-secret-slide-towards-a-super-state.html
Full article at www.telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8898213/German-memo-shows-secret-slide-towards-a-super-state.html
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Glee Throws High School Students under the Bus
From: Bill Johnson
To: Friends
Date: November 10, 2011
Re: Glee Throws High School Students under the Bus
Tuesday night FOX TV aired the much-hyped episode of Glee, entitled “The First Time.” As we reported last week, this episode centered on a high school girl losing her virginity with her boyfriend as well as two high school homosexual boys also having sex for the first time.
Some reviewers lauded this episode glorifying teenage sex for its “tasteful” depiction. Such as this writer from tvfanatic.com: “…if you tune in to be taken deeper into the teenager world, to watch a show that sometimes tries to deliver a message more than a joke, to have a serious experience... then you probably have a satisfied smile on your face right about now. …
If Glee is going to tackle the issue of losing one's virginity straight (or gay!) on, this is how it should be done.”
And then there were other TV reviewers who actually seemed to be disappointed because the sex wasn’t graphic enough!
However, the issue isn’t how explicit the sex scenes were - as the gushing reviewer writes above – it’s the message delivered to millions of teen and pre-teen viewers. And the message perpetuated by Glee is that teens who wait to have sex (let alone until marriage) are freaks and weird oddities of nature.
In this episode one student, shocked to find out two of his classmates are still virgins, convinces them that losing their virginity will make them better performers in the school musical, stating: “How do you expect to convey the human experience to an audience when you haven’t even opened yourself up to (the) most basic and primal one?”
The girl who ultimately loses her virginity seeks advice from other girls beforehand. Yet, even though statistics show in the “real” world that at least half of teens are abstinent, this one lone girl is the only one in the group who hadn’t yet engaged in promiscuous sex. As one of these girls tells her: “Losing my virginity was a great experience for me …”
Contrary to the fictional accounts in the show, the "first" experience for most girls is very much a disappointment and source of shame and guilt.
What irresponsible message is this conveying to vulnerable young people tuning in to Glee, a show with a fan base of millions? Instead of using their influence to at least portray abstinence as a positive choice in a culture rampant with teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and the negative and harmful consequences that often result, Glee and other teen-based shows throw their young audience under the proverbial bus, profiting from them while they contribute to their downfall and abasement.
One of the greatest dangers of Glee is the fact that the seductive messages of the show are mixed in with the entertaining song and dance performances, numbing viewers – especially young, impressionable ones – to the often subtle, indoctrinating ideas they’re absorbing.
While teens are not even considered mature enough to make a decision to legally get tattoos or piercings without parental permission, Glee mocks the idea that kids may not have the wisdom needed for such a monumental, irreversible step. Instead of supporting the fact that it is in the best interest of teens to practice abstinence, Glee creators are telling kids that their sexuality has no more consequence or significance than beasts in heat.
And then there’s the whole issue of the promotion and legitimization of homosexuality among teens on Glee - not only giving viewers messages in “acceptance” of any and all lifestyles, but also depicting several male on male kissing scenes, discussions of sex, as well as showing the two boys in bed together.
These types of themes on Glee shouldn’t come as a surprise since Glee’s creator, Ryan Murphy, has made clear his agenda to push illicit sexuality on our youth and erode television standards even further, having stated:
“It is tough to get that sexual point of view across on television. Hopefully I have made it possible for somebody on broadcast television to do a rear-entry scene in three years. Maybe that will be my legacy.”
And by choosing to align with Glee with their advertising dollars, the corporations sponsoring Glee empower these ideas and themes.
Take Action! Contact the sponsors of Glee by clicking on the link below.
http://americandecency.org/take_action_form.php?message=130
To: Friends
Date: November 10, 2011
Re: Glee Throws High School Students under the Bus
Tuesday night FOX TV aired the much-hyped episode of Glee, entitled “The First Time.” As we reported last week, this episode centered on a high school girl losing her virginity with her boyfriend as well as two high school homosexual boys also having sex for the first time.
Some reviewers lauded this episode glorifying teenage sex for its “tasteful” depiction. Such as this writer from tvfanatic.com: “…if you tune in to be taken deeper into the teenager world, to watch a show that sometimes tries to deliver a message more than a joke, to have a serious experience... then you probably have a satisfied smile on your face right about now. …
If Glee is going to tackle the issue of losing one's virginity straight (or gay!) on, this is how it should be done.”
And then there were other TV reviewers who actually seemed to be disappointed because the sex wasn’t graphic enough!
However, the issue isn’t how explicit the sex scenes were - as the gushing reviewer writes above – it’s the message delivered to millions of teen and pre-teen viewers. And the message perpetuated by Glee is that teens who wait to have sex (let alone until marriage) are freaks and weird oddities of nature.
In this episode one student, shocked to find out two of his classmates are still virgins, convinces them that losing their virginity will make them better performers in the school musical, stating: “How do you expect to convey the human experience to an audience when you haven’t even opened yourself up to (the) most basic and primal one?”
The girl who ultimately loses her virginity seeks advice from other girls beforehand. Yet, even though statistics show in the “real” world that at least half of teens are abstinent, this one lone girl is the only one in the group who hadn’t yet engaged in promiscuous sex. As one of these girls tells her: “Losing my virginity was a great experience for me …”
Contrary to the fictional accounts in the show, the "first" experience for most girls is very much a disappointment and source of shame and guilt.
What irresponsible message is this conveying to vulnerable young people tuning in to Glee, a show with a fan base of millions? Instead of using their influence to at least portray abstinence as a positive choice in a culture rampant with teenage pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and the negative and harmful consequences that often result, Glee and other teen-based shows throw their young audience under the proverbial bus, profiting from them while they contribute to their downfall and abasement.
One of the greatest dangers of Glee is the fact that the seductive messages of the show are mixed in with the entertaining song and dance performances, numbing viewers – especially young, impressionable ones – to the often subtle, indoctrinating ideas they’re absorbing.
While teens are not even considered mature enough to make a decision to legally get tattoos or piercings without parental permission, Glee mocks the idea that kids may not have the wisdom needed for such a monumental, irreversible step. Instead of supporting the fact that it is in the best interest of teens to practice abstinence, Glee creators are telling kids that their sexuality has no more consequence or significance than beasts in heat.
And then there’s the whole issue of the promotion and legitimization of homosexuality among teens on Glee - not only giving viewers messages in “acceptance” of any and all lifestyles, but also depicting several male on male kissing scenes, discussions of sex, as well as showing the two boys in bed together.
These types of themes on Glee shouldn’t come as a surprise since Glee’s creator, Ryan Murphy, has made clear his agenda to push illicit sexuality on our youth and erode television standards even further, having stated:
“It is tough to get that sexual point of view across on television. Hopefully I have made it possible for somebody on broadcast television to do a rear-entry scene in three years. Maybe that will be my legacy.”
And by choosing to align with Glee with their advertising dollars, the corporations sponsoring Glee empower these ideas and themes.
Take Action! Contact the sponsors of Glee by clicking on the link below.
http://americandecency.org/take_action_form.php?message=130
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Calvinism On The Move
by Brenda Nickel
Saturday, 29 October 2011 09:17
www.carylmatrisciana.com
Calvinism is definitely on the rise within unlikely sectors of Evangelicalism. We expect to see increasing numbers of Calvinists in Reformed denominations, but to see Calvinism on the move in more fundamental branches of Christendom is surprising. Such was the focus of a recent newsletter article sent to Caryl Productions and titled, "Calvinism on the March" posted here by David Cloud of Way of Life Literature. The upswing in devotion to Calvinism can be traced to specific tactics that should be brought to the light of Truth so its deeds may be seen for what they are, deceptive. Otherwise, Christians will not be prepared to meet the challenges that lay ahead as loyalty to Calvinism's "sovereign purposes of God" advance nearly unabated. Do we care that biblical Christianity is being redefined from the inside out right before our very eyes?
Full article:
http://www.carylmatrisciana.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=277:calvinism-on-the-move&catid=39:calvinism&Itemid=58
Additional Info:
Calvinism on the March
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/169aa1723c4aa2b62518aea3937a55eb-185.html
Saturday, 29 October 2011 09:17
www.carylmatrisciana.com
Calvinism is definitely on the rise within unlikely sectors of Evangelicalism. We expect to see increasing numbers of Calvinists in Reformed denominations, but to see Calvinism on the move in more fundamental branches of Christendom is surprising. Such was the focus of a recent newsletter article sent to Caryl Productions and titled, "Calvinism on the March" posted here by David Cloud of Way of Life Literature. The upswing in devotion to Calvinism can be traced to specific tactics that should be brought to the light of Truth so its deeds may be seen for what they are, deceptive. Otherwise, Christians will not be prepared to meet the challenges that lay ahead as loyalty to Calvinism's "sovereign purposes of God" advance nearly unabated. Do we care that biblical Christianity is being redefined from the inside out right before our very eyes?
Full article:
http://www.carylmatrisciana.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=277:calvinism-on-the-move&catid=39:calvinism&Itemid=58
Additional Info:
Calvinism on the March
http://www.wayoflife.org/files/169aa1723c4aa2b62518aea3937a55eb-185.html
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