What Does ObamaCare Have to Do With the ESEA Reauthorization?

The fight for the right to be Free! By Ani­ta Hoge “Chair­man Alexan­der and his staff have asked for input from the pub­lic on his dis­cus­sion draft by Mon­day, Feb­ru­ary 2 via the e‑mail address [email protected]” (Source) How many Amer­i­cans hate Oba­maCare? Why do Amer­i­cans HATE ObamaCare? We have social­ized med­i­cine now. Do you want to nation­al­ize […]

Kudos to North Carolina and Her Wolves that Never Were

Jim Beers, retired Refuge Man­ag­er, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service As some­one with a long involve­ment in US and Euro­pean wolf deba­cles of the past three-plus decades, it is with admi­ra­tion and a wry sense of amuse­ment that I have fol­lowed the sor­did his­to­ry of fed­er­al red wolf impo­si­tions on […]

ALERT: ESEA

Ani­ta Hoge’s Pre­cious Good­bye to America                                                                                                   […]

The TSA Wants To Read Your Facebook Posts And Check Out Your Purchases Before It Will Approve You For PreCheck

from the ah,-now-I-understand-the-phrase-‘documented-citizen’ dept The TSA is dis­ap­point­ed that so few Amer­i­cans have opt­ed out of its bot­tle-toss­ing, pack­age-grop­ing screen­ings by sign­ing up for its PreCheck pro­gram. For a few years now, the TSA has been sell­ing trav­el­ers’ civ­il lib­er­ties back to them, most recent­ly for $85 a head, but it’s now mak­ing a seri­ous […]

Revealed: Canadian Spy Program Illustrates “Giant X-Ray Machine Over All Our Digital Lives”

Lat­est rev­e­la­tion from Snow­den archive shows CSE has been mon­i­tor­ing, ana­lyz­ing, and track­ing mil­lions of peo­ple who uti­lize pop­u­lar file-shar­ing websites Rapid­share was one of three file-shar­ing web­sites tar­get­ed in the spy agen­cy’s sur­veil­lance. (Pho­to: Evan Mitsui/CBC) New­ly released doc­u­ments con­tained in the archive of mate­ri­als leaked to jour­nal­ists by NSA whistle­blow­er Edward Snow­den reveals […]

Your home appliances will soon be remotely controlled by the government

Increas­ing­ly, our free­dom and auton­o­my are threat­ened by those who seek to mon­i­tor and con­trol every aspect of our dai­ly lives. George Orwell’s “Big Broth­er” from the nov­el 1984 is a pale threat in com­par­i­son to the dystopi­an real­i­ty our lead­ers which have cre­at­ed for us since that book was pub­lished more than six decades […]

Civilization Rights

Busi­ness ceas­es to become busi­ness when it becomes engaged in polit­i­cal deci­sion mak­ing regard­less of whether the deci­sions con­cern for­eign or domes­tic pol­i­cy. It becomes a fifth col­umn that seeks absolute con­trol. A per­son would have to be com­plete­ly brain dead not to see that this is what has hap­pened to the Unit­ed States. It’s […]

EFF’s Game Plan for Ending Global Mass Surveillance

 We have a prob­lem when it comes to stop­ping mass surveillance. The enti­ty that’s con­duct­ing the most extreme and far-reach­ing sur­veil­lance against most of the world’s communications—the Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Agency—is bound by Unit­ed States law. That’s good news for Amer­i­cans. U.S. law and the Con­sti­tu­tion pro­tect Amer­i­can cit­i­zens and legal res­i­dents from war­rant­less sur­veil­lance. That […]

What Diane Ravitch isn’t telling you

The Whole Truth about the “Whole Child” An Edi­to­r­i­al by Ani­ta Hoge Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Pri­va­ti­za­tion Move­ment and the Dan­ger to Amer­i­ca’s Pub­lic Schools is the title of the new book by Diane Rav­itch. It is favor­ably reviewed and sum­ma­rized at the Dai­ly Kos HERE. Rav­itch’s book pur­ports to answers ques­tions about […]

Teachers Refuse The Test

Par­ents, in grow­ing num­bers, have been refus­ing the Com­mon Core aligned test for their chil­dren. Over 50% (see cor­rec­tion) of the stu­dents in New York City refused the test last year. Yes­ter­day I wrote about Jia Lee who said she found it uncon­scionable to give the new Com­mon Core aligned tests to her stu­dents. Anoth­er […]

In Response to EFF Lawsuit, Government Ordered to Release Secret Surveillance Court Documents Today

Update: The gov­ern­ment released two new FISC opin­ions this evening, both of which con­cern the tran­si­tion of NSA sur­veil­lance to the over­sight of the FISC in 2007. Nei­ther of the two doc­u­ments, avail­able here and here, is the Raw Take order or the 2008 FAA order. The gov­ern­ment has one addi­tion­al pro­duc­tion dead­line in this […]

Education Reform Explained in 8 Minutes

The back­ground of the Reau­tho­riza­tion of the ESEA This 8‑minute YouTube video is gain­ing trac­tion. Watch it here:  . Please keep it mov­ing. Please for­ward to your media contacts. Published on Jan 24, 2015, Angela Alef and Karen Champagne gave their presentation in Memphis, TN on 10/29/2014. Charlotte Iserbyt of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America was […]

Monckton fires back point-by-point rebuttal at warmist critics of new peer-reviewed study: ‘Shoddy, rent-a-quote ‘scientists’

Lord Mon­ck­ton Mon­ck­ton: ‘A cli­mate sci­ence paper by Dr Willie Soon, Pro­fes­sor David Legates, Matt Brig­gs and me, just pub­lished in the Sci­ence Bul­letin of the Chi­nese Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, the Orient’s equiv­a­lent of Nature demon­strates that the bil­lion-dol­lar cli­mate mod­els that have so prof­itably pre­dict­ed Ther­maged­don are hope­less­ly wrong.’ ‘With­in hours a blog fund­ed by the wealthy but mys­te­ri­ous […]

STOP REAUTHORIZATION OF ESEA

BOMBARD CONGRESS  WITH EMAILS, LETTERS AND PHONE CALLS!  STOP the Reau­tho­riza­tion of the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act (ESEA), oth­er­wise known as Every Child Ready for Col­lege or Career Act of 2015 spon­sored by Sen. Lamar Alexan­der. This bill amends the No Child Left Behind which is the Re-autho­riza­tion of the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act of […]

How the UN Is Confiscating American Homes and Controlling All Food and Energy

In times of crises, the gov­ern­ment has proven, time and time again, that it can­not be count­ed on to ade­quate­ly pro­tect the Amer­i­can peo­ple. As the Amer­i­can peo­ple have not pre­pared for the com­ing dark days, they will be vul­ner­a­ble to star­va­tion, dehy­dra­tion, cholera, pan­demics and attacks from resource-defi­cient loot­ers. Will the gov­ern­ment be there […]

Trans Pacific Partnership: Obama ready to defy Democrats to push secretive trade deal

The TPP has drawn the ire of Democ­rats includ­ing Eliz­a­beth War­ren who object it will destroy jobs, lim­it online free­dom, increase out­sourc­ing and derail cli­mate agree­ments. Iron­i­cal­ly, it has made allies of his GOP rivals. A pro­test­er holds a plac­ard dur­ing a ral­ly against the Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship (TPP) in Tokyo. Pho­to­graph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP The Trans […]

HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites

The Asso­ci­at­ed Press reports that healthcare.gov–the flag­ship site of the Afford­able Care Act, where mil­lions of Amer­i­cans have signed up to receive health care–is qui­et­ly send­ing per­son­al health infor­ma­tion to a num­ber of third par­ty web­sites. The infor­ma­tion being sent includes one’s zip code, income lev­el, smok­ing sta­tus, preg­nan­cy sta­tus and more. An exam­ple of per­son­al […]

Al Gore Wants to Ban Cars in Cities

If you live in a major city and own a car, you might not be able to keep your car in the city, or you might have to give up your car all togeth­er. You see, for­mer Vice Pres­i­dent Al Gore and his cur­rent part­ner in crime, for­mer Mex­i­can Pres­i­dent Felipe Calderon, are look­ing to […]

(Missouri conference) What Is The Role Of Public Schools

After sev­er­al years look­ing at Com­mon Core; where it came from, who sup­ports it, how it is being imple­ment­ed, its impact on teachers/students/parents, and lis­ten­ing to the com­plaints of parents/the gen­er­al pub­lic about it, I view Com­mon Core as a symp­tom, not the cause of the pub­lic out­cry over edu­ca­tion. I believe the rea­son most […]

One Bay Area

Michael Shaw FA Note: Grab your favorite cup of ______ and lis­ten to a very infor­ma­tive dis­cus­sion of One Bay Area. One Bay Area is America’s most exten­sive and expen­sive appli­ca­tion of Agen­da 21. Michael Shaw dis­cuss­es the One Bay Area Plan, ABAG, ICLEI, and COGs with host, KSCO San­ta Cruz sta­tion own­er, Michael Zwer­ling and var­i­ous […]

What You Can Learn from Oakland’s Raw ALPR Data

Pri­va­cy info. This embed will serve con­tent from youtube-nocookie.com Police cars mount­ed with auto­mat­ic license plate read­ers (ALPRs) wind their way through the streets of Oak­land like a “Snake” game on an old cell phone. Instead of eat­ing up pix­els of food, these cam­eras gob­ble down thou­sands of license plates each day. And instead of […]

Smartphones will begin categorizing users’ mental health; gun seizures will follow

The Dig­i­tal Age has pro­duced some remark­able tech­nol­o­gy and will con­tin­ue to do so, but as each new inno­va­tion springs forth, more of us are find­ing that we are not as com­fort­able with it as we once thought we might be. One of the lat­est exam­ples comes from a new iPhone app that appears capa­ble of […]

Secret TPP Negotiations—And Public Protests—To Be Held in New York City

The next round of secret Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship (TPP) nego­ti­a­tions begins this Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 26, and runs through the fol­low­ing week at the Sher­a­ton New York Time Square Hotel in down­town Man­hat­tan. As with many pre­vi­ous TPP meet­ings, the pub­lic will be shut out of talks as nego­tia­tors con­vene behind closed doors to decide bind­ing rules […]

Bill Gates Rules the World

Data­bank­ing Every­body Everywhere (Source) From the arti­cle above, “Bill Gates: dig­i­tal learn­ing will rev­o­lu­tionise edu­ca­tion in glob­al south”, Cheap­er smart­phones and tablets, advances in soft­ware and bet­ter net­work cov­er­age will rev­o­lu­tionise the way chil­dren in devel­op­ing coun­tries learn over the next 15 years, accord­ing to the Microsoft co-founder and phil­an­thropist Bill Gates.… “The edu­ca­tion­al soft­ware is […]