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Month: January 2015

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 (her?) GOP rivals. A pro­test­er holds a plac­ard dur­ing a ral­ly against the Trans-Pacif­ic Part­ner­ship (TPP) in Tokyo. Pho­to­graph: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP The […]

trade

The Details of How Obama is Selling America to Corporations

FA Note: A Pub­lic-Pri­vate Part­ner­ship, or “P3” as below is usu­al­ly billed as an “inno­v­a­tive” financ­ing scheme where­by a gov­ern­ment ser­vice or pri­vate busi­ness ven­ture is fund­ed and oper­at­ed through a part­ner­ship of gov­ern­ment and one or more pri­vate sec­tor com­pa­nies. In infra­struc­ture P3s, tax­pay­ers can expect being charged user fees, such as tolls, on […]

corporatism/fascism, new world order, public-private partnerships, transportation

Lamar Alexander’s Re-authorization of ESEA

Ani­ta B. Hoge A Pre­lim­i­nary Analy­sis of the Bill by Ani­ta Hoge Source: http://help.senate.gov/imo/media/AEG15033.pdf This bill was pre­sent­ed twice and referred to committee. Every Child Ready for Col­lege or Career Act of 2015 spon­sored by Sen. Lamar Alexan­der. This bill amends No Child Left Behind which is the Re-autho­riza­tion of the Ele­men­tary and Sec­ondary Edu­ca­tion Act of 1965 […]

education, family autonomy, new world order, property rights, surveillance, technocracy

White House Methane Madness

Siegfried Fred Singer is an Aus­tri­an-born Amer­i­can physi­cist and emer­i­tus pro­fes­sor of envi­ron­men­tal sci­ence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Virginia Con­trary to per­sis­tent claims by envi­ron­men­tal­ists, Methane is not an impor­tant green­house gas (GHG); it has a total­ly neg­li­gi­ble impact on cli­mate.  Attempts to con­trol methane emis­sions make lit­tle sense; the just-announced [Jan 14] White House […]

climate change

Deaf Ears

Yes­ter­day, I set about the busi­ness of writ­ing about Ida­ho State Board of Edu­ca­tion and their appar­ent inabil­i­ty to hear the voic­es of the voters. In 2012 there was a bal­lot ini­tia­tive that asked to vot­ers to approve a pro­gram of pay-for-per­for­mance for teach­ers.  The vot­ers reject­ed the pro­gram.  There were actu­al­ly three ini­tia­tives on […]

education, technocracy

NH bill would ban Common Core national standards

CONCORD, N.H. – A bill intro­duced to the New Hamp­shire Sen­ate would pro­hib­it the state from requir­ing the imple­men­ta­tion of Com­mon Core edu­ca­tion stan­dards, a pow­er­ful first step towards a nul­li­fi­ca­tion of fed­er­al con­trol over education. Intro­duced by State Sen. Kevin Avard (R‑Nashua), Sen­ate Bill (SB101) suc­cinct­ly states that Com­mon Core “shall not be required […]

education

ESEA & your property taxes!

Elim­i­nat­ing prop­er­ty tax­es aligns with the  ESEA Re-autho­riza­tion bill! The fol­low­ing alert by Ani­ta Hoge per­tains to a bill in the state of Penn­syl­va­nia (HB 76, The Prop­er­ty Tax Inde­pen­dence Act), but it could just as eas­i­ly apply to your local state. Do you know what it lurk­ing in your state’s leg­is­la­tion? Read this very impor­tant alert. Elim­i­nat­ing […]

education, family autonomy, new world order, property rights

Arkansas Takes Away 7 Homeschool Children because Father had Unapproved Mineral Supplement

FA Note: Lit­tle is heard today of what might be called “Sus­tain­able Med­i­cine”. It exists, but not specif­i­cal­ly with­in Agen­da 21. The Codex Ali­men­ta­r­ius Com­mis­sion was cre­at­ed by the UN, cov­er­ing all foods. The U.S. FDA’s pol­i­cy is that Codex super­sedes U.S. laws. Fur­ther­more, the U.S. pas­sage of CAFTA requires the U.S. to con­form to […]

agenda 21, family autonomy, medicine, police state, property rights, trade

Asset Forfeiture and the Cycle of Electronic Surveillance Funding

EFF Note: The bulk of the research in this post was com­piled pri­or to Attor­ney Gen­er­al Eric Hold­er’s sur­prise announce­ment that he is cur­tail­ing the fed­er­al equi­table shar­ing pro­gram. The post may be updat­ed as fur­ther ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the pol­i­cy deci­sion become clear. “You fol­low drugs, you get drug addicts and drug deal­ers. But you […]

police state, property rights, surveillance

OBAMA TARGETS BABIES!

Assess­ing the babies is Oba­ma’s agenda http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/resources/inftodd/mod1/1.1.pdf Ani­ta B. Hoge An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge This is the birth to kinder­garten men­tal health inter­ven­tions for our babies. This is research for the ear­ly learn­ing and the $1 bil­lion that Oba­ma is fund­ing for day­care and preschool. http://ecmhc.org/documents/CECMHC_FacilitatingToolkit.pdf This toolk­it Facil­i­tat­ing Indi­vid­u­al­ized Inter­ven­tions to Address Chal­leng­ing Behav­ior is […]

education, family autonomy, new world order, surveillance

Wolf Wisdom from a Wolf Authority

Jim Beers, retired Refuge Man­ag­er, Spe­cial Agent, & Wildlife Biol­o­gist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Introductory note from Jim Beers:  Dr. Val Geist is a retired Cana­di­an Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­fes­sor now liv­ing in British Colum­bia. While his title is “Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus of Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence” his field of exper­tise for which he is inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized is the biol­o­gy […]

wildlands network

HIPAA & FERPA

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION  ABOUT THE RULES FOR HIPAA AND FERPA  COVERING AN EDUCATION RECORD An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge Ani­ta B. Hoge EDUCATION RECORDS ARE NOT COVERED BY HIPAA. NO MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AT SCHOOL ARE COVERED BY HIPAA. Expla­na­tion of HIPPA and FER­PA-Ear­ly Child­hood Data can be found in this doc­u­ment: A Look at Penn­syl­va­ni­a’s Ear­ly Child­hood Data System […]

education, family autonomy, new world order, property rights, surveillance

Global Governance vs. American Sovereignty

Empires have been built through­out his­to­ry and most even­tu­al­ly fell when the empire got too large or too tyran­ni­cal. There has always been, and prob­a­bly always will be, a ten­sion between con­sol­i­dat­ing pow­er at the top or decen­tral­iz­ing pow­er to the peo­ple. Our Found­ing Fathers gave us a high­ly decen­tral­ized Repub­lic with most pow­er vest­ed […]

new world order, trade

Homeschooling Parents Declared to be ‘Bona Fide’ Guardians and Won’t Face Jail

There was a spir­it­ed meet­ing at the Gooch Coun­ty (VA) School Board last night as hun­dreds of peo­ple attend­ed to show their con­cern about a dis­trict pol­i­cy that home­schooled stu­dents (at age 14) must declare their reli­gious affil­i­a­tion. From wric.com: There’s con­tro­ver­sy in Goochland over home­school­ing. It all stems from a new pol­i­cy that some […]

education, family autonomy

Security is Not a Crime—Unless You’re an Anarchist

Rise­up, a tech col­lec­tive that pro­vides secu­ri­ty-mind­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tions to activists world­wide, sound­ed the alarm last month when a judge in Spain stat­ed that the use of their email ser­vice is a prac­tice, he believes, asso­ci­at­ed with terrorism. Javier Gómez Bermúdez is a judge of Audi­en­cia Nacional, a spe­cial high court in Spain that deals with […]

police state, property rights, surveillance, united nations

Expert: Obama’s ‘bogus’ student data proposal won’t fix privacy problem he created

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An edu­ca­tion ana­lyst says Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s call for stronger pro­tec­tion of stu­dent dig­i­tal data is “bogus.” The pres­i­dent ear­li­er this week pro­posed a new Stu­dent Dig­i­tal Pri­va­cy Act aimed at pre­vent­ing com­pa­nies from sell­ing sen­si­tive stu­dent infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed in schools and from using such data to tar­get adver­tis­ing to chil­dren, accord­ing […]

education, family autonomy, new world order, surveillance, technocracy

Parents investigated for neglect after letting kids walk home alone

Danielle and Alexan­der Meitiv View ~2 minute Wash­ing­ton Post video HERE: Danielle and Alexan­der Meitiv let their chil­dren, 10 and six, walk home alone from a park a mile away from their house. Now, Mont­gomery Coun­ty is inves­ti­gat­ing the cou­ple for child neglect. (Jorge Ribas/The Wash­ing­ton Post) It was a one-mile walk home from a Sil­ver […]

family autonomy

CHARTERS in the ESEA Re-authorization Bill!!!

Scott Walk­er’s Plan to Pri­va­tize Schools Ani­ta B. Hoge An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge https://goleftamerica.wildapricot.org/stop-charter-school-takeover “After cut­ting a bil­lion dol­lars from edu­ca­tion, Scott Walk­er and his GOP friends have achieved the goal sink­ing the edu­ca­tion­al poten­tial of Wis­con­sin Schools. On their first day back in ses­sion, Assem­bly Repub­li­cans seek­ing a free mar­ket solu­tion have intro­duced a bill […]

education, police state, property rights, surveillance

Proposed water quality rules may limit ag activities

A new effort to reg­u­late graz­ing and its poten­tial impacts on water qual­i­ty has Cal­i­for­nia ranch­ers con­cerned new rules could lim­it their food pro­duc­tion activ­i­ties and yield lit­tle envi­ron­men­tal benefits. State water reg­u­la­tors launched a series of pub­lic lis­ten­ing ses­sions around the state dur­ing Jan­u­ary to solic­it pub­lic com­ments before devel­op­ing a new “Graz­ing Reg­u­la­to­ry […]

agenda 21, agriculture, natural resources, property rights, sustainability, wildlands network

Greenhouse Gases “Rise” in Importance for NEPA Reviews -National Environmental Policy Act

Just before Christ­mas, the White House Coun­cil on Envi­ron­men­tal Qual­i­ty (“CEQ”) pub­lished revised draft guid­ance intend­ed to direct fed­er­al agen­cies on when and how to con­sid­er the effects of green­house gas (“GHG”) emis­sions and cli­mate change when eval­u­at­ing the envi­ron­men­tal effects of pro­posed agency actions under the Nation­al Envi­ron­men­tal Pol­i­cy Act (“NEPA”).  Con­sid­er­a­tion of cli­mate change is […]

climate change, natural resources, property rights, sustainability, wildlands network

Beware ESEA Re-authorization!

To come up for a vote by end of March! An Alert by Ani­ta Hoge This was the plan all along.… The House passed their ver­sion of the re-autho­riza­tion in July 2013. The Sen­ate had their ver­sion come out of com­mit­tee last year (HR 5 and SB 1094). Plus, Repub­li­cans put amend­ments that allowed CHOICE VOUCHERS TO […]

education

County schools’ ROP gets $35K grant

FA NOTE: Com­mon Core? — The Brain­wash­ing of Kids to Accept Water Scarcity SAN BERNARDINO CALIFORNIA— The San Bernardi­no Coun­ty Super­in­ten­dent of Schools’ Region­al Occu­pa­tion­al Pro­gram has received a $35,000 grant to sup­port new high school class­es that address water issues in California. The pro­grams are expect­ed to devel­op new stan­dards-based mod­el cur­ricu­lum that pro­mote […]

agenda 21, education, natural resources, new world order, sustainability, water rights

Commie Core for Pre-K

Go, Maine, Go!“Qual­i­ty ear­ly child­hood edu­ca­tion — whether pro­vid­ed by par­ents or pri­vate or pub­lic pro­grams — can set stu­dents up for future suc­cess,” said Gov­er­nor Paul R. LeP­age. (Maine Press Release) Anoth­er Com­mu­nist ini­tia­tive sup­port­ed by Maine’s neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Trot­skyite Gov­er­nor Paul LeP­age! From a Press Release from Saman­tha War­ren, Maine DOE Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, […]

education

Who Owns the Environmentalist Movement?

From: 21st Cen­tu­ry, Fall 1992 Who pulls the strings of envi­ron­men­tal groups? The estab­lish­ment fig­ures who fund and con­trol it — from Eng­land’s Prince Phillip and the Nether­lands’ Prince Bern­hard, to U.S. cor­po­rate fun­ders like Robert O. Anderson. Far from a grass roots move­ment, envi­ron­men­tal­ism is a big busi­ness, fund­ed and direct­ed by the lead­ing fam­i­lies […]

agenda 21, green, sustainability, wildlands network