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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The following is the complete text of the formal letter that Anita Hoge addressed to Carolyn C. Dumaresq, Acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Education on Nov. 21st. This letter gives the full details behind the PRESS RELEASE issued several days ago, which we published in its entirety on this blog (click HERE). Anita […]
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK If you can’t explain the ‘pause’, you can’t explain the cause… A paper published today (December, 2014) in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds a “strong and stable correlation” between the millennial variations in sunspots and the temperature in Antarctica over the past 11,000 years. In stark contrast, the authors find no […]
In politics, as with Internet memes, ideas don’t spread because they are good—they spread because they are good at spreading. One of the most virulent ideas in Internet regulation in recent years has been the idea that if a social problem manifests on the Web, the best thing that you can do to address that […]
Note: FA is not espousing an opinion or position here on racism in the United States, or the killing of Michael Brown. We hope increased sunlighting through filming of authorities will help restablish liberty, peace and justice in this nation. Dystopian futures have always imagined governments oppressing us with surveillance. Under the all-seeing, all-hearing eyes […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Pennsylvanians Restoring Education Contacts: Anita B Hoge 724–263-0474 Cheryl Boise 412–389-6896 Ryan Bannister 717–919-2122 Rich Felice 484–678-2236 November 24, 2014. Harrisburg, Pa; Pennsylvanians Restoring Education, Pennsylvania Against Common Core, citizens of Pennsylvania, parents and students are asking Governor Corbett to place a moratorium on the data collection in the Pennsylvania Information Management […]
Sustainable Development is the blueprint being used across America and around the world to implement the United Nations Agenda 21 Programme.
