Congress Quietly Decides To Delete Key NSA Reform In CRomnibus Agreement

You may recall, back in June, that there was a key House vote that took NSA sup­port­ers by sur­prise. An amend­ment to the Defense Appro­pri­a­tions bill pushed by a bi-par­ti­san team of Thomas Massie, Jim Sensen­bren­ner and Zoe Lof­gren passed over­whelm­ing­ly, with a plan to slam the door shut on ques­tion­able NSA “back­door search­es” (as […]

The Disappearing States

Jim Beers is a retired Refuge Man­ag­er, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Excerpts from a recent news arti­cle from McClatchy Newspapers: Rise in trade spurs U.S. to pro­tect turtles 1.       “The U.S. gov­ern­ment is propos­ing a new lev­el of pro­tec­tion for cer­tain fresh­wa­ter tur­tles, con­cerned that a mas­sive increase in […]

Appeals Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Idaho Woman’s Case Against NSA Spying

EFF, ACLU Sup­port Smith in Fight­ing Mass Sur­veil­lance Before Ninth Circuit Seat­tle — An appeals court will hear oral argu­ments in Smith v. Oba­ma, a case filed by an Ida­ho nurse against a con­tro­ver­sial Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Agency (NSA) tele­phone data col­lec­tion pro­gram, in Seat­tle on Mon­day, Dec. 8. Attor­ney Peter Smith. Cred­it: Lukins & Annis Anna Smith, […]

Chinese Mom Spills The Red Beans!

Tells the truth about Com­mon Core being Communist!  Watch Lily’s speech by watch­ing the video. I have been warn­ing for years that this is Com­mu­nist. Here is an amaz­ing and coura­geous teti­mo­ny by Lily Tang Williams! Her speech is report­ed about in an arti­cle titled Chi­nese-Amer­i­can Mom Says Com­mon Core Is Just Like Edu­ca­tion in Com­mu­nist […]

Quietly Coercing a Vassals and Fiefdoms Future for All of Us While Hyping Economic Development

I actu­al­ly am not nos­tal­gic for the cas­tles, moats, or medieval armor. For one thing I like to cook, but not with­out cen­tral­ized plumb­ing or over an open hearth. No, I keep think­ing of terms from the Mid­dle Ages because pub­lic poli­cies being qui­et­ly enact­ed in the Unit­ed States as well as oth­er coun­tries via […]

Common Core Psych Data on Children

Ani­ta Hoge’s Call for Stu­dent Data Moratorium Receives Nation­al Attention Read the whole arti­cle by click­ing HERE The read­ers of abc­sof­dumb­down blog will want to know that the Press Release sent out last week by Penn­syl­va­nia par­ents and cit­i­zens gen­er­at­ed media atten­tion. Here is what we pub­lished on the blog: The Press Release was post­ed on […]

Houston Man Arrested for Video Recording Cop on Private Property

Footage shows offi­cer imme­di­ate­ly hand­cuff man for not obey­ing order Amidst a nation­al debate about police bru­tal­i­ty, anoth­er video has emerged of a police offi­cer arrest­ing some­one for video record­ing, this time on his own friend’s pri­vate property. The footage out of Hous­ton, Texas is all the more shock­ing because the cop doesn’t even try to […]

Give Gruber a Break

Jonathan Gru­ber, PhD  “Gruber’s inherent academic assumption of (ordinary) Americans’ stupidity is elucidated by Charlotte Iserbyt’s 1999 The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America…Gruber’s matter-of-fact pronouncement of the “stupidity” of Americans reflects his academic assumption of the success of government education, and validation of Iserbyt’s investigations into the education establishment.” Jonathan Gru­ber has been round­ly rep­ri­mand­ed in […]

Breastfed, Homebirthed Babies Taken Away From Parents For Not Using Hospital

FA Note: Agen­da 21’s intends con­trol over all sec­tors of life includ­ing that of birth and child rearing. The Ren­go Fam­i­ly: Cleave, Eri­ca, with 10 month old Levi, and new­born twins. The Ren­go Fam­i­ly place­ment hear­ing was continued…again…to Fri­day morn­ing at 9 a.m Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jason Over­street, rep­re­sent­ing the 42nd dis­trict in Wash­ing­ton, and who has tak­en an inter­est […]

Opt Out of the Countywide Vision Plan & Common Core

FA Note: iAgenda21 is an affil­i­ate of the Amer­i­can Coali­tion for Sus­tain­able Com­mu­ni­ties (ACSC) — “Sus­tain­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tive gov­ern­ment.” Theirs is the type action that needs to be under­tak­en in every coun­ty in the country! New Report expos­es col­lec­tivist reg­u­la­tion, insti­tut­ed at tax­pay­er expense, in San Bernardi­no Coun­ty, Cal­i­for­nia. The report is authored by the Amer­i­can Coali­tion for […]

Disturbing testimony at hearing reveals what is at the core of Common Core support

Per­haps the most dis­turb­ing tes­ti­mo­ny pre­sent­ed to Wisconsin’s Assem­bly dur­ing a recent hear­ing on Com­mon Core was not about Com­mon Core at all. Super­in­ten­dent Nick Madi­son, of the Bril­lion School Dis­trict, offered the most reveal­ing look at the thought process behind the cur­rent pop­u­lar “reforms.” Madison’s dis­trict is sit­u­at­ed in a farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty of about […]

Lt. Gov.: Let’s scrap and replace Common Core in Mississippi

PHOTO BY: State of Mis­sis­sip­piSECOND IN COMMAND: Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves advo­cates the replace­ment of the state’s Com­mon Core curriculum. Com­mon Core in Mis­sis­sip­pi might be on the chop­ping block if Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves has his way. Reeves told Mis­sis­sip­pi Watch­dog in a phone inter­view Mon­day he sup­ports scrap­ping Com­mon Core and replac­ing it with anoth­er curriculum. […]

Pennsylvania Citizens Call for Moratorium on Data Collection

The Sto­ry Behind the Pennsylvania Press Release and Open Let­ter By Ani­ta Hoge, 3D Research Group Ani­ta B. Hoge   “I have grave con­cerns about the direc­tion that the Com­mon Core stan­dards move­ment has tak­en, as well as, my con­cerns of the ethics of test­ing and teach­ing in the affec­tive domain. I must ques­tion the legal­i­ty […]

Outdated essays on pocket gophers reveal lack of evidence for ESA listing

Sev­enth in a series on a new ESA list­ing. We will pub­lish addi­tions to the series if/as they are written. Unsup­port­ed claims in obscure essays from 1942, 1944, and 1960 have hurt a lot of peo­ple in south Thurston Coun­ty, Wash­ing­ton.  Oppres­sive laws are based on them—including the 2014 Endan­gered Species Act micro-list­ing of four Maza­ma […]

Cells of Insurrection

In what kind of twist­ed world would Oath Keep­ers – Oath Keep­ers to the Con­sti­tu­tion of the Unit­ed States, be con­sid­ered domes­tic ter­ror­ists? That’s the ques­tion that was asked last week in an inter­view with Stew­art Rhodes, Founder and Pres­i­dent of Oath Keepers. After lis­ten­ing to the inter­view, I thought I should check to see […]

Japanese scientists use surrogates to produce endangered species

Japan­ese sci­en­tists have devel­oped a new biotech­nol­o­gy tech­nique that uses mack­er­el as sur­ro­gates for bluefin tuna with the hope of sav­ing the prized species from extinction. Con­sid­ered a del­i­ca­cy in Japan­ese cui­sine, glob­als sup­plies of bluefin tuna have been dwin­dling, prompt­ing the Inter­na­tion­al Union for Con­ser­va­tion of Nature to put the fish onto its red list. […]

Oregon public school sex-ed conference promotes sex toys, sexting, and using meth to 11 year olds

FA Note:  Com­mon (Communist/Soviet) Core State Stan­dards were adopt­ed in Ore­gon in 2010. This con­fer­ence should sur­prise no one  when both Marx and Engels believed that mono­gomy and mar­riage were harm­ful to the “com­mune”. Life, body and love were to be public/communal property. Click HERE for KOIN News report on conference. What would you call an adult […]

Thanks, Property Rights!

FA Note:  The inter­na­tion­al treaties and agree­ments cit­ed in the ESA, which autho­rize the Act, were all nego­ti­at­ed to pro­tect each nation’s agri­cul­tur­al economies and the com­mu­ni­ties depen­dent on them. Sim­ple log­ic, and basic eco­nom­ics, both dic­tate — if a “mar­ket” exists/develops for any species, their num­bers will grow. This Thanks­giv­ing, I give thanks for some­thing our […]

In Recent Prairie Dog Case, the Federal Government Admits Something it Tries to Cover-Up

Lit­tle noticed in the recent court deci­sion about the Utah prairie dog, which struck down for the first time the list­ing of a species under the Endan­gered Species Act, is the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment admit­ted some­thing that it and oth­er pro­po­nents of the Act have long tried to con­ceal: the Act restricts and pre­vents oth­er­wise nor­mal […]