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“The election is over. What next?” Exhibit A: Letter from Nina Rees, 11/6/14 The charter school agenda is cranking up into high gear. This quote at the top was in the “Subject” line of an e‑mail from Nina Rees of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools sent today (11/6/14). This is the planned agenda for […]
Technology leaders in three cities imagine how they would harness Chicago’s innovative sensor pilot in their communities This fall, Chicago will install a network of 40 sensors to discover how new data sets can inform decisions that make the city a better place to live. The Array of Things initiative will begin with devices being […]
The Final Nail in the Education Coffin See Proposed Ballot Propositions at the New York Board of Elections website: http://elections.ny.gov/ProposedConsAmendments2.html TAXPAYERS APPROVE TWO BILLION DOLLARS FOR NEW YORK’S SKINNERIAN SMART SCHOOLS (AND COMMUNITIES!). This is the FINAL NAIL in the coffin of brain-based education and true local control. As C.S. Lewis quipped, “When training beats […]
The Death of the Conscience http://whitehouse.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violence UNESCO’S LONG- PLANNED MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM ARRIVES! Eighty years in the making! This is an old agenda. And you may find its roots disturbing! http://whitehouse.gov/issues/preventing-gun-violence President Obama has announced “Now is the time to do something about gun violence” and includes “mental health” as one of its tenets. Notice […]
Sixth in a series on a new ESA listing. We will publish additions to the series if/as they are written. A new addition to the Endangered Species Act, the Mazama pocket gopher, is found to have popped up in the lush, rainy forests and mountains of the Pacific Northwest. And who can blame him? The forests and […]
This expanding “voluntary” surveillance network is a public-private partnership, allowing police detectives access to video footage in most locations only where crimes have already occured. Such networks cannot guarantee to prevent crime; they record crime. “Baltimore’s CitiWatch video surveillance program has expanded over the past eight years from an initial installation of 50 standalone cameras to more than 600 networked closed-circuit […]
John W. Whitehead, Founder, the Rutherford Institute As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, there are several methods for controlling a population. You can intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, relying on military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized police, and […]
STRAIGHT OUT OF A SOVIET COMMUNIST TEXTBOOK! Watch this video in the article posted HERE “The kids who come to us are a clean slate.… It’s the adults who have to be retrained.” Read the following article and learn how parents are being retrained — but not just in math skills! “Common Core math can be […]
Welcome to the GLOBAL COMMONS! http://unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/strategy_microsoft_agreement.pdf COMMON CORE MAY BE MORE COMMON (COMMUNIST) THAN HAS BEEN ADMITTED! Read the following excerpt from an article, “Common Core Not State Led – Here’s Proof: Who’s Looking Out for Our Kids?” published October 24, 2014: Back in 2002 the US Department of Education, with help from Bill Gates (Microsoft […]
A case of Regionalism: Southern Oregon is induced into a Regional plan. Regionalism is the political restructure designed to abolish local government autonomy. It is implemented through orders and extortions from above leading ultimately to a unelected and unaccountable government that directs soviet-style implementation of policy. The 1/2 hour video below records the Josephine County […]
dusky gopher frog The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is seeking to protect the dusky gopher frog on the Endangered Species List by designating over 1,500 acres of private property in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana as a “critical habitat” for the embattled amphibian. But here’s the kicker: The frog hasn’t been seen on the […]
Dr. Charles Battig Let’s start a new carbon dioxide (CO2) website. Let’s forget unimaginative and puny sites anchored in the mid 300’s. How about “50,000 dot com”? 50,000ppm to be exact… That is a really big number in view of claims that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), […]
Verizon users might want to start looking for another provider. In an effort to better serve advertisers, Verizon Wireless has been silently modifying its users’ web traffic on its network to inject a cookie-like tracker. This tracker, included in an HTTP header called X‑UIDH, is sent to every unencrypted website a Verizon customer visits from […]
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have demolished claims by global warming activists that global warming caused or worsened many extreme weather events last year. According to NOAA’s new publication, Explaining Extremes of 2013 from a Climate Perspective, there is no discernible connection between global warming and 2013 extreme weather events such as the […]
Thanks to the federal government, it soon may become far more difficult to use and enjoy private property. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers want to make a water—and land—grab that should scare everyone. Under the Clean Water Act, the federal government has jurisdiction over “navigable waters,” which the statute further […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 300 K‑12 schools in America have joined President Obama’s Connect All Schools initiative since its launching in March of 2011. The initiative, which seeks to “connect every school in the US with the world by 2016,” is a partnership of the US Department of Education, US Department of State, and Qatar […]
Climate change activists are touting new evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of educational programs that seek to transform American schoolchildren into anti-carbon activists through the power of animation and freestyle rapping. The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) is a non-profit organization that seeks to educate students on climate science and inspire them to take collective action […]
Free or Not Free? That is the question! Note the Skinnerian language inherent in this book’s title:PROGRAMMED LEARNING: EVOLVING PRINCIPLES AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS (Foundation for Research on Human Behavior: Ann Arbor, Mich., 1961) edited by Jerome P. Lysaught (see blog post earlier on this topic). From a chapter authored by Robert Glaser aptly titled “Principles of Programming”: […]
From facial recognition to personal data collection, this thing is downright scary — and so are the implications I just bought a new TV. The old one had a good run, but after the volume got stuck on 63, I decided it was time to replace it. I am now the owner of a new […]
Wolfgang Schauble, German Finance Minister In one of the bluntest statements on the topic by any globalist thus far, controversial German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (shown) openly called for “global standards” and “global governance” in taxation to ensure that governments can continue extracting huge sums in taxes from the wealth-producing class in perpetuity. In an […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
