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UNITED WE STRIKE RADIO
"Society’s biggest failure is it has allowed authority to be its truth; and prevented truth from being its authority."
--Moebius Nemesis
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I am, I am not. I was, I was not. I don't care.
Common writing on
Roman pagan tombstones
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When unity makes the ways complete, it is in unity that all will gather
themselves, and it is by Gnosis that all will purify themselves out of
multiplicity into unity, consuming matter within themselves as fire, and
darkness by light, and death by life. So since these things have happened to
each of us, it is fitting for us to meditate upon the entirety, so that this
house might be holy and quietly intent on unit.
--Bentley Layton on
The Gospel of Truth, from The Gnostic
Scriptures
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When we are inclined to boast of our position we should remember that
we are but Gentiles, while the Jews are of the lineage of Christ. We are aliens
and in-laws; they are blood relatives, cousins, and brothers of our Lord.
Therefore, if one is to boast of flesh and blood, the Jews are actually nearer
to Christ than we are, as St. Paul says in Romans 9. God has also demonstrated
this by his acts, for to no nation among the Gentiles has he granted so high an
honor as he has to the Jews. For from among the Gentiles there have been raised
up no patriarchs, no apostles, no prophets, indeed, very few genuine Christians
either. And although the gospel has been proclaimed to all the world, yet He
committed the Holy Scriptures, that is, the law and the prophets, to no nation
except the Jews, as Paul says in Romans 3 and Psalm 147, "He declares his
word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel. He has not dealt thus
with any other nation; nor revealed his ordinances to them.
— Martin Luther, 1523
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I define myself,
first and foremost, I like to think that I am a
'progressive-constitutionalist" where: we should have a federal
constitutional convention at least once a generation because “…laws and
institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more
enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners of
opinions change with the circumstances, institutions must advance, and keep
pace with the times.”
--Thomas Jefferson, July 12, 1810
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“Brethren, the lamented Abraham
Lincoln believed himself to be bone from our bone and flesh from our flesh. He
supposed himself to be a descendant of Hebrew parentage. He said so in my
presence. And, indeed, he preserved numerous features of the Hebrew race, both
in countenance and character.”
--Rabbi Issac Wise
supposedly gave Lincoln's funeral address
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Dresden Manifesto
shows that "the corporate media" was 100% Jewish in 1882
"One by one, the
Jews are capturing the principal newspapers of America”
--British politician,
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, (Letter Nov 1914, to Sir Edward Grey, Letters and
Friendships)
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“The ideals of Bolshevism at many points are consistent with the finest
ideals of Judaism.”
--Jewish Chronicle, 4th
April 1919 (London)
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“Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become
accustomed to no one governing.”
--Vladmir Lenin
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Omission is the
greatest form of lie.
--George Orwell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
--George Orwell
Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful…and to give
an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
--George Orwell
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"This was the first piece of Holocaust revisionist literature I read and it's always been my favourite. Why? Because, as I read it, Hayward's growing astonishment at what he was discovering exactly matched my own astonishment at what I was reading."
-- Paul Eisen, on The Fate of Jews in
Germany
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Not so well known is
the story of Roosevelt's enormous responsibility for the outbreak of the Second
World War itself with his efforts to pressure Britain, France and Poland into
war against Germany in 1938 and 1939.When the Germans took Warsaw in late September
1939, they seized a mass of documents from the Polish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. These documents revealed how FDR and FDR's ambassador to Paris William
Bullitt were manipulating things behind the scene. At the end of March 1940, 16
of these documents were published in book form under the title Polnische
Dokumente zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges ["Polish Documents on the
Pre-History of the War"]. The Foreign Office edition was subtitled
"German White Book No. 3." The German Foreign Office made the documents
public on Friday, 29 March 1940. In Berlin Journalists from around the world,
including the United States, were given facsimile copies of the original Polish
documents and translations in German. journalists were permitted to examine the
original documents themselves, along with an enormous pile of other documents
from the Polish Foreign Ministry.
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"The war wasn't only about abolishing fascism, but to conquer
sales markets. We could have, if we had intended so, prevented this war from
breaking out without doing one shot, but we didn't want to."
--Winston Churchill
to Truman (Fultun, USA March 1946)
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"Germany's unforgivable crime before WW2 was its attempt to loosen
its economy out of the world trade system and to build up an independent
exchange system from which the world-finance couldn't profit anymore. ...We
butchered the wrong pig."
--Winston Churchill
(The Second World War - Bern, 1960)
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The Jew screams in pain as he kicks you.
--Old Polish saying
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“If
I am killing a rat with a stick and have him in a corner, I am not indignant if
he tries to bite me and squeals and gibbers with rage. My job is, not to get
angry, but to keep cool, to attend to my footwork and to keep on hitting him
where it will do the most good.”
--A. S. Leese, speaking at Reception, 17th
Feb., 1937, on his return from prison where he was consigned for writing the
truth about Jews
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“The greatest danger
of Jewish power lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion
pictures, our press, our radio, and our government.”
– Charles A.
Lindbergh, Jr.
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"My opinion of
Christian Zionists? They're scum, but
don't tell them that.
We need all the
useful idiots we can get right now."
--Bibi Netanyahu
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"The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle)."
--Chabad
Lubavitch Rabbi Manis Friedman
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Answers
physiognomy
The study of expression, primarily of the emotions, and principally via
the face, has a long and complex history. From Aristotle onwards,
physiognomy has been the means of reading and judging character based on the expressions of the face. In sum, physiognomists recognized the face as an index of emotion
and (moral) character; and physiognomy offered a way of conceptualizing
these particular observations in terms of general categories or
theories. The purpose of physiognomy was to identify and to describe the
common forms that organized the diversity of appearances, and, as such,
it functioned in a profoundly normative manner — as the determinant of
what was common to all people and all things in the physical world. At
best, physiognomy provided an explanation of human nature in terms of a
uniform order of types or kinds, which worked by translating particular
observations into general theories of character and emotion. At worst,
it was disparaged as a mystical and highly deterministic practice, more
akin to fortune-telling than to science, and cast as a poor resemblance
of its family relation, phrenology.
A number of thinkers have attempted to describe and explain how the desire to see the workings of the mind, and ultimately the soul, through the face answers these questions about man, mind, and nature. Aristotle, Charles Le Brun, Johann Caspar Lavater, and Charles Darwin are the most notable. The challenge they faced was how to establish the grounds upon which their teachings could be viewed as true or rejected as false. One of the earliest philosophical treatises on physiognomy, and the first attempt to present physiognomy as a hermeneutic, and possibly scientific, method, was a work thought to be written by Aristotle, Physiognomica, which identified three categories of physiognomic judgement — the zoological, the ethnological, and the pathognomical. Yet what emerges after Aristotle is a complex relationship between the classical mode of reading and judging character — physiognomy — and the rise and triumph of inner, scientific understandings of expression based on physiology. Such a relationship originates with the work of Charles Le Brun, who believed an understanding of expression was the key to discerning the passions or the activities of the mind (soul). Based on Descartes' theory of the passions, Le Brun's Conférence sur l'expression générale et particulière (1668) sought to present a rational and coherent theory of expression. Le Brun wanted to demonstrate the necessary and natural correspondence between the movements of the passions and the movements of the facial muscles, and, from this, to deduce the laws of expression. A knowledge of the principles, psychological and physiological, which directed these activities and their external appearance would, he claimed, release the artist from simply copying nature and allow him to create his own images, which would be directed by, and maybe even improve on, the processes of nature.
This notion of ‘improvement’ was of crucial importance to Johann Caspar Lavater in his Essays on Physiognomy (1789-93). In his hands, each and every attempt to read and judge character was a means of ascribing an essence to human nature that imagined there was something hidden from external appearances, which, once discovered, made them more purposeful and more substantial. One could arrive at a definition of man by imputing a certain kind of ‘spirit’ from the ‘surface’ appearance of an individual. But the point was that Lavaterian physiognomy enabled the impressions of sense to be translated into common sense — an essential and ideological form, which comprehended order and unity from the appearances of things. The appeal of essentialism for Lavater lay in its capacity to validate a ‘science’ of man based on a theory of natural kinds. But the problem of essentialism for physiognomy was that it imagined its ‘science’ as the result of an intuitive understanding of the intrinsic properties and purposes of things. So, whilst essentialism underwrote Lavater's ‘science’ of man, it was also, and not incidentally, the cause of its many inconsistencies.
There is no doubt that Charles Darwin was sceptical about the claims of physiognomy with regard to expression and emotion. Nonetheless, it is interesting that his study of expression makes a number of contradictory claims about the possibility and plausibility of conducting a scientific analysis of expression. Darwin's oft-neglected work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), was self-consciously presented as the cornerstone of his evolutionary theory — the means of demonstrating once and for all that man was not a separate and divinely created species but continuous with other species. An evolutionary account of expression was not concerned with teleological explanations of physical attributes; rather, it was directed towards finding a means of understanding the process through which expressions are acquired. The result was a study of expression that tried to identify specific mental and emotional states as well as their corresponding expressions (by concentrating on their motor activity), and then map their common descent through groups of related organisms. If this could be done, then human feelings like love, anger, fear, and grief could be treated as habits and shown to have clearly recognizable parallels, perhaps even origins, in the animal world.
The rise and triumph of these inner, scientific rationales for the expression of the emotions placed the study of expression on new ground. Indeed, the evolutionary explanation of expression given by Darwin (and taken to its logical, albeit odious, conclusion by Francis Galton, father of eugenics) is both the long-term outcome of physiognomical teachings and the reason for their dissolution. As we reflect on the impact of physiognomy, there is much to suggest that its demise is no bad thing.
A number of thinkers have attempted to describe and explain how the desire to see the workings of the mind, and ultimately the soul, through the face answers these questions about man, mind, and nature. Aristotle, Charles Le Brun, Johann Caspar Lavater, and Charles Darwin are the most notable. The challenge they faced was how to establish the grounds upon which their teachings could be viewed as true or rejected as false. One of the earliest philosophical treatises on physiognomy, and the first attempt to present physiognomy as a hermeneutic, and possibly scientific, method, was a work thought to be written by Aristotle, Physiognomica, which identified three categories of physiognomic judgement — the zoological, the ethnological, and the pathognomical. Yet what emerges after Aristotle is a complex relationship between the classical mode of reading and judging character — physiognomy — and the rise and triumph of inner, scientific understandings of expression based on physiology. Such a relationship originates with the work of Charles Le Brun, who believed an understanding of expression was the key to discerning the passions or the activities of the mind (soul). Based on Descartes' theory of the passions, Le Brun's Conférence sur l'expression générale et particulière (1668) sought to present a rational and coherent theory of expression. Le Brun wanted to demonstrate the necessary and natural correspondence between the movements of the passions and the movements of the facial muscles, and, from this, to deduce the laws of expression. A knowledge of the principles, psychological and physiological, which directed these activities and their external appearance would, he claimed, release the artist from simply copying nature and allow him to create his own images, which would be directed by, and maybe even improve on, the processes of nature.
This notion of ‘improvement’ was of crucial importance to Johann Caspar Lavater in his Essays on Physiognomy (1789-93). In his hands, each and every attempt to read and judge character was a means of ascribing an essence to human nature that imagined there was something hidden from external appearances, which, once discovered, made them more purposeful and more substantial. One could arrive at a definition of man by imputing a certain kind of ‘spirit’ from the ‘surface’ appearance of an individual. But the point was that Lavaterian physiognomy enabled the impressions of sense to be translated into common sense — an essential and ideological form, which comprehended order and unity from the appearances of things. The appeal of essentialism for Lavater lay in its capacity to validate a ‘science’ of man based on a theory of natural kinds. But the problem of essentialism for physiognomy was that it imagined its ‘science’ as the result of an intuitive understanding of the intrinsic properties and purposes of things. So, whilst essentialism underwrote Lavater's ‘science’ of man, it was also, and not incidentally, the cause of its many inconsistencies.
There is no doubt that Charles Darwin was sceptical about the claims of physiognomy with regard to expression and emotion. Nonetheless, it is interesting that his study of expression makes a number of contradictory claims about the possibility and plausibility of conducting a scientific analysis of expression. Darwin's oft-neglected work, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), was self-consciously presented as the cornerstone of his evolutionary theory — the means of demonstrating once and for all that man was not a separate and divinely created species but continuous with other species. An evolutionary account of expression was not concerned with teleological explanations of physical attributes; rather, it was directed towards finding a means of understanding the process through which expressions are acquired. The result was a study of expression that tried to identify specific mental and emotional states as well as their corresponding expressions (by concentrating on their motor activity), and then map their common descent through groups of related organisms. If this could be done, then human feelings like love, anger, fear, and grief could be treated as habits and shown to have clearly recognizable parallels, perhaps even origins, in the animal world.
The rise and triumph of these inner, scientific rationales for the expression of the emotions placed the study of expression on new ground. Indeed, the evolutionary explanation of expression given by Darwin (and taken to its logical, albeit odious, conclusion by Francis Galton, father of eugenics) is both the long-term outcome of physiognomical teachings and the reason for their dissolution. As we reflect on the impact of physiognomy, there is much to suggest that its demise is no bad thing.
Britannica
solipsism
In philosophy, an
extreme form of subjective idealism that denies that the human mind has any
valid ground for believing in the existence of anything but itself. The British
idealist F.H. Bradley, in Appearance and Reality (1897), characterized the
solipsistic view as follows:
“I cannot transcend
experience, and experience is my experience. From this it follows that nothing
beyond myself exists; for what is experience is its [the self ’s] states.”
Presented as a
solution of the problem of explaining human knowledge of the external world, it
is generally regarded as a reductio ad absurdum. The only scholar who seems to
have been a coherent radical solipsist is Claude Brunet, a 17th-century French
physician.
Business Dictionary
apostille
Additional
authentication required for international acceptance of notarized documents
including (but not limited to) adoption papers, affidavits, birth certificates,
contracts, death certificates, deeds, diplomas and degrees, divorce decrees,
incorporation papers, marriage certificates, patent applications, powers of
attorney, and school transcripts. Instituted by 'The Hague Convention
Abolishing The Requirements Of Legalization For Foreign Public Documents' of
1961, its objective is obviate "the requirements of diplomatic or consular
legalization" and thus replace the cumbersome 'chain authentication
method' that called for verification by multiple authorities. As prescribed by
the convention, an apostille (French for, notation) is a preprinted small
(minimum 9 x 9 centimeters) form having ten numbered items of information with
blank spaces to be filled in by the designated authority in the issuing
country. It is obligatory upon every signatory country to accept apostilles of
the other signatory countries.
Law.YourDictionary.com
allocution legal
definition
The procedure during sentencing when a
judge gives a convicted defendant the opportunity to make a personal statement
on his own behalf to mitigate the punishment that is about to be imposed. The
defendant does not have to be sworn before he makes his address, his comments are
not subject to cross-examination, and the opportunity may include the right to
offer evidence (such as an explanation for his conduct or a reason why severe
sentence should not be imposed) beyond a request for mercy or an apology for
his conduct.
A similar procedure where the victim of a
crime is given in some states the opportunity to personally speak, before
punishment is imposed, about the pain and suffering suffered or about the
convicted defendant.
The procedure by which a guilty plea can be
accepted in a criminal action. The process usually consists of a series of
questions designed to assure the judge that the defendant understands the
charges, is guilty of the crime he is accused of, understands the consequences
of a guilty plea and that he is entitled to a trial, and is voluntarily
entering the plea.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-fli1.htm
Worldwide Words /
Weird Words
FLIBBERTIGIBBET
ˈflɪbətɪˈdʒɪbɪt/
It means a frivolous,
flighty, or excessively talkative person. It’s a fine word to throw out, in the
appropriate circumstances, though there’s a risk of tripping over all those
syllables. That’s no doubt why it has had so many spellings.
The original seems to
have been recorded about 1450 as fleper-gebet, which may have been just an
imitation of the sound of meaningless speech (babble and yadda-yadda-yadda have
similar origins). It started out to mean a gossip or chattering person, but
quickly seems to have taken on the idea of a flighty or frivolous woman. A century
later it had become respectable enough for Bishop Latimer to use it in a sermon
before King Edward VI, though he wrote it as flybbergybe.
The modern spelling
is due to Shakespeare, who borrowed it from one of the 40 fiends listed in a
book by Samuel Harsnet in 1603. In King Lear Edgar uses it for a demon or imp:
“This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. .. He gives the web and the pin,
squints the eye, and makes the harelip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the
poor creature of earth”.
There has been yet a
third sense, taken from a character of Sir Walter Scott’s in Kenilworth, for a
mischievous and flighty small child. But despite Shakespeare and Scott, the
most usual sense is still the original one.
Wikipedia
Flibbertigibbet
is a Middle English word referring to a flighty or whimsical person, usually a
young woman. In modern use, it is used as a slang term, especially in
Yorkshire, for a gossipy or overly talkative person. Its origin is in a
meaningless representation of chattering. It does not always apply to females,
however; it has also been used to describe Jiminy Cricket due to his whimsical,
chatty nature.
This word also has a
historical use as a name for a fiend, devil or spirit. In Shakespeare's King Lear (IV, i (1605)), he is one of
the five fiends Edgar (in the posture of a beggar, Tom o' Bedlam) claimed was
possessing him. Shakespeare got the name from Samuel Harsnett's Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures (1603),
where one reads of 40 fiends, which Jesuits cast out and among which was
Fliberdigibbet, described as one of "foure deuils of the round, or
Morrice, whom Sara in her fits, tuned together, in measure and sweet
cadence."
By extension it has
also been used as a synonym for Puck. Through its use as a nickname for a
character in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth, it has gained the meaning of an
impish child.
Flibbertigibbet
similarly features as a name in a local legend around Wayland's Smithy.
According to the tale, Flibbertigibbet was apprentice to Wayland the Smith, and
greatly exasperated his master. Eventually Wayland threw Flibbertigibbet down
the hill and into a valley, where he transformed into a stone. Scott associates
his Flibbertigibbet character in Kenilworth with Wayland Smith.
Another historical
connection and likely origin of the word comes from "fly by the
gibbet". A gibbet can refer to a platform or cage used to execute
criminals and display their remains outside a town to warn other would-be
criminals. The remains over time would be picked apart by small creatures and
birds and thus 'fly away'. "Fly by the Gibbet" may also have been
used as a sailing expression to refer to hoisting the gibbet sail. This is a
large sail that can be used when sailing with the direction of the wind to
capture as much wind as possible. A sail that has not been pulled tight will
flap in the wind, which may have also contributed to the association.
In the musical The Sound of Music, the nuns sing
"How do you solve a problem like Maria? How do you catch a cloud and pin
it down? How do you find a word that means Maria? A flibbertigibbet. A
will-o'-the-wisp. A clown."
Awaken in the Dream
ARE WE POSSESSED?
By Paul Levy
"...Jung writes, “…any autonomous complex not subject to the
conscious will exerts a possessive effect on consciousness proportional to its
strength and limits the latter’s freedom.” As it takes over and becomes in
charge of a person, a complex incorporates a seemingly autonomous regime within
the greater body politic of the psyche. Writing about autonomous complexes,
Jung says “…the complex forms something like a shadow government of the ego,”
in that the complex dictates to the ego.
When we are taken over by and in internal conflict with and because of
an autonomous complex, it is as if we, as natural rulers of our own psychic
landscape, have been deposed, and are living in an occupied country. We are
allowed our seeming freedom as long as it doesn’t threaten the sovereignty and
dominance of the ruling power. Jung comments, “…a man does not notice it when
he is governed by a demon; he puts all his skill and cunning at the service of
his unconscious master, thereby heightening its power a thousandfold.” Being
nonlocal, this inner, psychological situation can manifest both within our
psyche and out in the world at the same time."
Jewish Journal
The first Jewish
president? Lincoln, in the Abrahamic tradition
By Tom Teicholz
CODOH
The Lincoln Putsch:
America's Bolshevik Revolution
By George McDaniel
The Controversy of
Zion
By Douglas Read
(1978; 1985)
Invisible Empire, The
Act Of 1871 {HD}
Gods of Money Act of
1871
F. William Engdahl
Forty-First Congress.
Sess. III Chap. 62. 1871.
http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/our-common-community
UK Column
Our Common Community
It's not hard to notice cameras on every street corner. Their parents
may still need personalized retraining, but every school age child has
been taught their new responsibilities and requirements. Our national
government's new and very serious concerns regarding our health and
smoking, drinking, overeating and exercise is impossible to ignore. New
strange sounding "wars" are being waged on activities like overeating
and freedom of speech. It's no joke anymore that we all may have to pay
global taxes on the air we breathe. Inside our private homes we're all
dealing with a whole new bureaucratic system that assumed the role of
our new Big Mother.
What we share in common is we're all children in Big Mother's global communitarian family. I do know communitarianism is a mouthful to say and a challenge to spell, but it is the most important word you'll mumble aloud this year. Its use is slipping into the mainstream a little more each month and I think they're gearing up to unveil it before the "unwashed masses."
Some of you may remember when it was introduced by Tony Blair and New Labour as the Third Way. Now Phillip Blond is reintroducing communitarianism as the newest theoretical political answer to what ails us. The British Conservative Party, under David Cameron, is leading the British communitarian resurgence.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in a TV interview on April 18, 2010, described Americans as more diverse and communitarian now. This was just the latest of Bill's assertions about American communitarianism, a repeat of speeches he's made in Toronto, Montreal and Berkeley over the past year.
For once in his public-private career, Bill Clinton is not lying.
Communitarianism is a political system that gives authority over individuals to unelected community "stakeholder" councils. A stakeholder is defined as a "group, person, organization or system" which can be just about anybody or anything. You'll find the term used in just about every government and grant funded project in existence today. It's always used as if it means you.
Forming "partnerships" with "stakeholders" is an effective way to bypass voters and taxpayers living in the affected regions. Their community goals and missions always include "raising public awareness" and advising legitimate government bodies how to adopt the new communitarian laws (never identified as that though, unless it's a former communist new member EU state like Serbia, Croatia or the Czech Republic, or Bolivia and Peru with their new openly communitarian constitutions). Claiming to include more citizens in the democratic process, communitarian councils do just the opposite. And they continually seek more power.
Bill's right. We are all communitarians now. What that means to us is any body's guess. Most people will adopt the vague party line and agree it's a fresh solution to partisan politics. The libertarians will tell you they like the part about giving power to unelected, self-appointed community councils who have the communitarian power to regulate every one's personal life in the community. The Catholics will tell you they just hope a communitarian spirituality is included. The Protestants, Jews and Muslims won't want to seem selfish so they'll assume a moral value in it somewhere too. The left will dismiss it a right wing conspiracy theory and the far right will call it a communist plot. (If Sarah Palin ever mentions it we can be sure she'll confirm it!)
Here's the part that our politicians and the "experts" never tell us about communitarianism: it's also the law of the European Union. Communitarian Law is the entire basis for the supremacy of law clause that overrules all national, state, county and municipal laws in conflict with it.
Lots of really smart people will go to great lengths to explain the theory, how some parts of it make real sense to other smart people. Those same smart people will probably tell you they don't know anything about the law part, sorry. It's just a benign social theory, they say, one that rose and fell already, nothing to worry about. Others will tell you the law's a conspiracy theory.
Communitarian Law is the law regulating all community based government. At the top level it represents the global community. At the middle level it represents the regional community. At the bottom it represent the local community ("not to be confused with local government." Amitai Etzioni).
In October, 2004, Professor Jan Mazak, Ph.D., Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic published one of the most amazing descriptions of the EU I've ever come across. In it, he details the "immediate applicability of the communitarian law." He explains that the Slovak Constitution gave the Slovak government the power to sign an international treaty that transferred some of the republic's power over to the EU Courts, telling in no uncertain terms that communitarian law overrules conflicting national laws.
There was one news report that identified the French and Dutch referendums rejecting the EU Constitution in 2005 as based on voter concerns about the EU's supremacy of communitarian law clause. But both times the Irish voted on it I couldn't find any Irish articles or debates about the EU communitarian legal system Ireland was adopting. I thought that a matter of such importance would become a primary issue in a national vote over joining the EU. It never even became a minor point. The theories of communitarian justice, economics, development, morality, policing and mandatory volunteerism are not up for debate. To join, or not to join, that is the only question.
But the real dilemma is this: communitarianism is also the philosophical/legal theory for global sustainable development. Communitarian supremacy is the moral philosophy justifying new land and resource use regulations under UN Local Agenda 21. We don't need to accept EU style regional government to become communitarians. Yes the EU Communitarian system of harmonization and norms is the model for all the emerging trade unions from the Middle East to Africa and South America. But we already adopted community government hook line and sinker when we changed our national mission statements to adopt sustainable development principles.
Americans, like their neighbors across the sea, are manipulated back and forth between the right and the left, and then they're admonished for not thinking more communitarian. Whatever that means.
Communitarianism enriches experts, stakeholders and compliant citizens only. Individuals who can read and think for themselves need not apply. Voters who insist their national and state law reigns supreme in their nations must be re-educated into more moral, enlightened thinking. Our Common Destiny requires we all share one Common Purpose. We can forget Common Sense, it's completely outdated.
http://iamthewitness.com/doc/Jewish.Stars.Over.Hollywood.htm
Jura
Lina - The Jewish Hand in Bolshevism/Communism Not Mentioned at School
Anthony Judge, (Port Said, 21 January 1940) is mainly known for his career at the Union of International Associations (UIA), where he has been Director of Communications and Research, as well as Assistant Secretary-General. He was responsible at the UIA for the development of interlinked databases and for publications based on those databases, mainly the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, the Yearbook of International Organizations, and the International Congress Calendar. Judge has also personally authored a collection of over 1,600 documents of relevance to governance and strategy-making. All these papers are freely available on his personal website Laetus in Praesens. Now retired from the UIA, he is continuing his research within the context of an initiative called Union of Imaginable Associations.
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What we share in common is we're all children in Big Mother's global communitarian family. I do know communitarianism is a mouthful to say and a challenge to spell, but it is the most important word you'll mumble aloud this year. Its use is slipping into the mainstream a little more each month and I think they're gearing up to unveil it before the "unwashed masses."
Some of you may remember when it was introduced by Tony Blair and New Labour as the Third Way. Now Phillip Blond is reintroducing communitarianism as the newest theoretical political answer to what ails us. The British Conservative Party, under David Cameron, is leading the British communitarian resurgence.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, in a TV interview on April 18, 2010, described Americans as more diverse and communitarian now. This was just the latest of Bill's assertions about American communitarianism, a repeat of speeches he's made in Toronto, Montreal and Berkeley over the past year.
For once in his public-private career, Bill Clinton is not lying.
Communitarianism is a political system that gives authority over individuals to unelected community "stakeholder" councils. A stakeholder is defined as a "group, person, organization or system" which can be just about anybody or anything. You'll find the term used in just about every government and grant funded project in existence today. It's always used as if it means you.
Forming "partnerships" with "stakeholders" is an effective way to bypass voters and taxpayers living in the affected regions. Their community goals and missions always include "raising public awareness" and advising legitimate government bodies how to adopt the new communitarian laws (never identified as that though, unless it's a former communist new member EU state like Serbia, Croatia or the Czech Republic, or Bolivia and Peru with their new openly communitarian constitutions). Claiming to include more citizens in the democratic process, communitarian councils do just the opposite. And they continually seek more power.
Bill's right. We are all communitarians now. What that means to us is any body's guess. Most people will adopt the vague party line and agree it's a fresh solution to partisan politics. The libertarians will tell you they like the part about giving power to unelected, self-appointed community councils who have the communitarian power to regulate every one's personal life in the community. The Catholics will tell you they just hope a communitarian spirituality is included. The Protestants, Jews and Muslims won't want to seem selfish so they'll assume a moral value in it somewhere too. The left will dismiss it a right wing conspiracy theory and the far right will call it a communist plot. (If Sarah Palin ever mentions it we can be sure she'll confirm it!)
Here's the part that our politicians and the "experts" never tell us about communitarianism: it's also the law of the European Union. Communitarian Law is the entire basis for the supremacy of law clause that overrules all national, state, county and municipal laws in conflict with it.
Lots of really smart people will go to great lengths to explain the theory, how some parts of it make real sense to other smart people. Those same smart people will probably tell you they don't know anything about the law part, sorry. It's just a benign social theory, they say, one that rose and fell already, nothing to worry about. Others will tell you the law's a conspiracy theory.
Communitarian Law is the law regulating all community based government. At the top level it represents the global community. At the middle level it represents the regional community. At the bottom it represent the local community ("not to be confused with local government." Amitai Etzioni).
In October, 2004, Professor Jan Mazak, Ph.D., Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic published one of the most amazing descriptions of the EU I've ever come across. In it, he details the "immediate applicability of the communitarian law." He explains that the Slovak Constitution gave the Slovak government the power to sign an international treaty that transferred some of the republic's power over to the EU Courts, telling in no uncertain terms that communitarian law overrules conflicting national laws.
There was one news report that identified the French and Dutch referendums rejecting the EU Constitution in 2005 as based on voter concerns about the EU's supremacy of communitarian law clause. But both times the Irish voted on it I couldn't find any Irish articles or debates about the EU communitarian legal system Ireland was adopting. I thought that a matter of such importance would become a primary issue in a national vote over joining the EU. It never even became a minor point. The theories of communitarian justice, economics, development, morality, policing and mandatory volunteerism are not up for debate. To join, or not to join, that is the only question.
But the real dilemma is this: communitarianism is also the philosophical/legal theory for global sustainable development. Communitarian supremacy is the moral philosophy justifying new land and resource use regulations under UN Local Agenda 21. We don't need to accept EU style regional government to become communitarians. Yes the EU Communitarian system of harmonization and norms is the model for all the emerging trade unions from the Middle East to Africa and South America. But we already adopted community government hook line and sinker when we changed our national mission statements to adopt sustainable development principles.
Americans, like their neighbors across the sea, are manipulated back and forth between the right and the left, and then they're admonished for not thinking more communitarian. Whatever that means.
Communitarianism enriches experts, stakeholders and compliant citizens only. Individuals who can read and think for themselves need not apply. Voters who insist their national and state law reigns supreme in their nations must be re-educated into more moral, enlightened thinking. Our Common Destiny requires we all share one Common Purpose. We can forget Common Sense, it's completely outdated.
Living Outside the
Dialectic
Frank Lutz
George Lakoff
Slavery By Consent:
Understanding The Human Farm
Mind Control
Authors Jim Keith
(deceased) and Jerry Smith (deceased) along with citizen lobbyist Juanita Cox
present evidence of mind control and manipulation in America with a surprising
variety of methods. This show explains many things that you need to be aware of
and watch out for. One hour available at www.libertyandjusticeforall.tv
Mind Control, World
Control – Jim Keith (1997)
Mind Control, World
Control
By Jim Keith
(1997)
I read this in 1999
and found it to be an accurate primer for those who have long suspected that
things in America aren't quite 'right'. Having undergone 30+ years of
non-consensual experimentation, harassment, stalking and other crimes here in
the US, I can recommend this book to others who may just be coming to the
realization that they, too, are under attack.
For a more up-to-date
view of the new America, consider looking at the material at www.raven1.net , www.mindjustice.org or http://aches-mc.org .
It's later than you
think, so start thinking now. This book can be a good place to start.
Dr. Robert Beck -
Psychotronics (1980s)
(TECHNOTRONIC EMPIRE
series)
The Beck Protocol –
FAQ
Facebook CIA Project:
The Onion News Network
Workplace Doesn't
Work for Women
Henry Makow
"Women's Day"
Today is Old Soviet Propaganda Ploy
http://iamthewitness.com/doc/Jewish.Stars.Over.Hollywood.htm
Jewish Stars Over
Hollywood
Regions Of Saturn
Regions of Saturn is
a short video production which highlights an important historical truth in
respect of what was recorded by Jonathan Williams (1750-1815) in his 1781 book,
'Legions of Satan'. Williams, a dedicated American patriot, wrote of a warning
that had been given to George Washington by General Charles Cornwallis after
Washington, along with his French allies, had secured the surrender of
Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown, on 19th October, 1781. History has since
accredited Cornwallis as being responsible for the loss of British-held colonies
to continental forces.
The removal of
Legions of Satan from the U.S. Library of Congress ought to ring alarm bells
within all Americans of good conscience simply because this act of public
censorship is part of the ongoing effort to erase the tracks of those who are
or have been actively engaged in the subversion of the U.S. Constitution and
the Bill of Rights.
The removal of such
an important historical document from the public record was, in our opinion,
done by James Billington who, since 1987, has been head of the Library of
Congress. Prior to that, Billington, a Rhodes scholar, was director of the
'Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars'; yet another tax-exempt
foundation actively engaged in the rewriting of American history either through
lies, distortions or omissions of pertinent facts.
Billington wrote a
book titled Fire in the Minds of Men which was published In 1980. The book is
an important work insofar that it deals primarily about pre-revolutionary
Russia and a secret society of nihilists. Billington is evidently relating this
paricular period of history with what is currently happening not only in
America but globally. One should easily spot the similarities if one is able to
perceive how these people think and operate within their network.
Cornwallis was no
prophet though. He merely understood how the B'rith (British) Empire for world
domination worked because of his close ties with the power-structure within the
upper levels of the British establishment. Yet despite Cornwallis being made
the 'scapegoat' for the apparent loss of British colonies, he nonetheless
continued to enjoy the confidence of the British establishment, and as such,
was made a member of 'The Most Noble Order of the Garter' in 1801. Just five
years after his 'incompetence' at Yorktown, Cornwallis was appointed
Governor-General and commander-in-chief of India in 1786. Cornwallis used this
authority to 'secure', or rather, steal land on behalf of the British crown by
whatever means he and those under his command saw fit. This usually meant
genocide.
Attention is also
drawn to yet another infamous historical character who was also made a member
of 'The Most Noble Order of the Garter'. The man in question is Arthur James
Balfour who, in November 1917, authored the infamous Balfour Declaration
addressed to Lord Rothschild informing him of the British governments
sympathies with Jewish Zionist aspirations vis a vis Palestine.
The last few minutes
of 'Regions Of Saturn' is more a preview of a soon-to-be-released documentary
which through documented evidence, connects all the seemingly unrelated topics
that so many supposed 'truth-tellers' are working very hard to keep partitioned
at worst, or muddled at best.
An extended version
of this text is available at FugaziQuo.Com along with a recommended reading
list:
Christian Zionism 1 of
4
(OneDollarDVDProject.com)
CHRISTIAN ZIONISM: THE
NEW HERESY THAT SWAYS AMERICA
THE POLITICAL AGENDA
OF CHRISTIAN ZIONISM
postville usa
Screen Propaganda,
Hollywood and the CIA
DEMOCIDE: Socialism,
Tyranny, Guns And Freedom
Common Purpose Project
The Supreme Court and
FDR's Power-Grab
I Was a Paid Internet
Shill: How Shadowy Groups Manipulate Internet Opinion and Debate
The Shanghai office
block that is the source of 90 per cent of cyber attacks on America
Exposing Sex Ed, Judith
Reisman Causes Storm in Croatia
Dr. Judith Reisman:
Porn, Addiction, and the Impact on Youth, Women and Families
Jewish Porn Star James
Deen–”The Jews know we’re better than everyone else. That’s all that matters.
It’s true. We’re the Chosen People. It’s a fact.”
Saskatchewan human
rights commission to look at complaint of man offended by Christian prayer at
volunteer banquet
JW Releases
Confidential USDA Videos Revealing “Cultural Sensitivity Training” Program
“This USDA diversity
training video depicts out-of-control political correctness,” said Tom Fitton,
president of Judicial Watch. “Can someone please explain how any of this helps
USDA employees to better serve the American taxpayer? This video further
confirms that politically-correct diversity training programs are both
offensive and a waste of taxpayer money.
No wonder it took over half a year to obtain this video from the Obama
administration.”
On the Cognitive and
Historic Roots of Our Destructive Modern Polarization
Research on the
theory of Cultural Cognition has found that our views on issues of the day are
in fact only reflections of deeper worldviews about the basic way we prefer
society to operate. We adopt views on various issues based not just on the
facts but so our views align with those of the groups with which we most closely
identify. This helps us feel safe, since as social animals we depend on our
group, our tribe, literally for our safety and survival. Agreeing with the
group maintains us as a protected member in good standing. And if everyone in
our group agrees, that social unity increases our group's influence in the
competition with other tribes for setting society's rules. The more powerful
and successful our group is, the safer we feel.
Cultural Cognition
identifies four basic groups;
·
Individualists, who prefer
a society that maximizes individual freedom and choice and control. (They
prefer less government, i.e. "socialism".)
·
Communitarians, who prefer
a 'we're all in it together' society that sacrifices some personal liberty in
the name of the greater common good. (They prefer a more active role for
government.)
·
Hierarchists, who prefer a
traditional and unchanging society operating by fixed and commonly accepted
hierarchies of social and economic class. (They prefer less government butting
in and making things fair.)
·
Egalitarians, who prefer a
more flexible society, unconstrained by traditional fixed hierarchies. (They
prefer more government, as an engine of social and economic equity.)
The influence of
these underlying worldviews on how we feel about individual issues is profound.
Cultural Cognition research has found that these basic group identities are
more accurate predictors of our positions on many of the contentious issues of
the day than political affiliation, education, religion, or any of the more
common demographic identifiers.
The Colin A. Ross
Institute was formed in 1995 to further the understanding of psychological
trauma and its consequences by providing educational services, research, and
clinical treatment of trauma based disorders.
{I suspect it is
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) that is actually being foisted on
society-at-large. ~Lark}
Executioner in Chief:
How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Became the Head of a Worldwide Assassination
Program
West of Memphis: New
Film Defends Killers
A new documentary
beats the drum for Satanist child killers.
As usual, Liberals
shill for Satanism. Two docs released, and a feature film in the works.
"The myopic and
uniform opinion about West of Memphis from critics at the nation’s top
newspapers is astonishing. Every major newspaper critic parrots the falsehood
that the West Memphis Three were unjustly convicted. "
By William Ramsey
(henrymakow.com)
On December 25th,
2012 supporters of the West Memphis Three released a new documentary about the
ritual murders of three young boys on the evening of May 5th, 1993 in West
Memphis, Arkansas. Three teenagers,
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley were arrested and convicted
of the heinous crime in 1994. After a concerted public effort by a well-funded
group of supporters, the three convicted killers were released from prison in
2011.
[In 1996, a
three-part documentary film, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood
Hills, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, directed
by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were
strongly critical of the verdict. A feature film is in production for release
in time for Halloween 2013.]
Damien Echols, the central figure in the
murders, maintains his innocence in his recent book Life After Death and in the
latest (2012) movie West of Memphis.
Funded by Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson and directed by Amy
Berg, the film West of Memphis lists Damien Echols as a co-producer. Peter Jackson boasted about the money he
spent hiring investigators in support of the convicted killers.
Of Jackson, David Bay
wrote the following: "When I viewed
The Lord of the Rings, I was filled almost immediately with the most
unbelievable sense of deep, pervasive Satanism. Almost immediately, I was
filled with the greatest foreboding I have ever sensed, and throughout the
movie, I felt a great, great power of evil emanating from the screen. This
movie is far more Satanic and pure evil than Harry Potter."
Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell,
MBE (pronounced /ˈdʒɔn ˈiːnɔk poʊl/; 16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a
British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, linguist and soldier. He
served as a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) (1950–74), Ulster
Unionist Party (UUP) MP (1974–1987), and Minister of Health (1960–63). He
attained most prominence in 1968, when he made a controversial speech against
immigration, now widely referred to as the "Rivers of Blood" speech.
In response, he was sacked from his position as Shadow Defence Secretary
(1965–68) in the Shadow Cabinet of Edward Heath. He had few friends in the
establishment. Michael Heseltine condemned the Rivers of Blood speech as having
a "racist tone" and of being an "explosion of bigotry”. Thirty
years later, however, Heath would admit that his remarks on the "economic
burden of immigration" had been "not without prescience."
National Recovery Act
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Thorstein Veblen
Veblen had little
impact on theoretical economics. However his biting satire on the business
class influenced liberals throughout the 20th century, as typified by the
writings of John Kenneth Galbraith, who copied Veblen's sarcastic style. Veblen
combined a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with a new institutionalist
approach to economic analysis. He combined sociology with economics in his
masterpiece, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), arguing there was a basic
distinction between the productiveness of "industry," run by
engineers, which manufactures goods, and the parasitism of
"business," which exists only to make profits for a leisure class.
The chief activity of the leisure class was "conspicuous consumption,"
and their economic contribution is "waste," activity that contributes
nothing to productivity. The American economy was therefore made inefficient
and corrupt by the businessmen, though he never made that claim explicit.
Veblen insisted that
customs played a prominent role in shaping economic behavior, and that social
institutions are very influential over economics. He was a prolific writer, and
his most famous work was his first: The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899).
There he coined the term "conspicuous consumption" in order to
describe the "leisure class."
Veblen believed that
technological advances were the driving force behind cultural change, but,
unlike many contemporaries, he refused to connect change with progress.
Although Veblen was sympathetic to government ownership, had a low opinion of
workers and the labor movement and was hostile to Marxism.
As a leading
intellectual of the Progressive Era, his sweeping attack on production for
profit and his stress on the wasteful role of consumption for status greatly
influenced liberal thinkers seeking a non-Marxist critique of capitalism.
Experts complained his ideas, while brilliantly presented, were crude, gross,
fuzzy, and imprecise; others complained he was a wacky eccentric. Scholars
continue to debate exactly what he meant in his convoluted, ironic and satiric
essays; he made heavy use of examples of primitive societies, but many examples
were pure invention.
Masters of Deception
Zionism, 9/11 and the
War on Terror Hoax
By Zander C. Fuerza
(2013)
Anthony Judge
Anthony Judge, (Port Said, 21 January 1940) is mainly known for his career at the Union of International Associations (UIA), where he has been Director of Communications and Research, as well as Assistant Secretary-General. He was responsible at the UIA for the development of interlinked databases and for publications based on those databases, mainly the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential, the Yearbook of International Organizations, and the International Congress Calendar. Judge has also personally authored a collection of over 1,600 documents of relevance to governance and strategy-making. All these papers are freely available on his personal website Laetus in Praesens. Now retired from the UIA, he is continuing his research within the context of an initiative called Union of Imaginable Associations.
"The Jesuit: The
Obscurantist without a Homeland."
A Propaganda Pamphlet by Hubert
Hermanns
(1933)
GERALD POLLACK:
Electrically Structured Water, Part 1 | EU 2013
GERALD POLLACK:
Electrically Structured Water, Part 2 | EU 2013
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco Knight
Grand Cross (Italian pronunciation: [umˈbɛrto ˈɛko]; born 5 January 1932) is an
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. He
is best known for his groundbreaking 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of
the Rose), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical
analysis, medieval studies and literary theory. He has since written further
novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del
giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His most recent novel Il cimitero
di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, was a best-seller.
Eco has also written
academic texts, children's books and many essays. He is founder of the
Dipartimento di Comunicazione at the University of the Republic of San Marino,
President of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna,
member of the Accademia dei Lincei (since November 2010) and an Honorary Fellow
of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.
Interpretation and
Overinterpretation:
World, History, Texts
UMBERTO ECO
THE
TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN
VALUES
Delivered at Clare
Hall,
Cambridge University
March 7 and 8, 1990
Silent Weapons for
Quiet Wars
An Introduction
Programming Manual
Operations Research
Technical Manual
TW-SW7905.1
Henry Makow
Rosa Parks - Proof
Communists Run America
Rules For Radicals
A Practical Primer for
Realistic Radicals
By Saul D. Alinsky
(1971)
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Building Communities
From the Food Up
{Comment by Lark}
Edwin Vieira on His New
Book, 'The Sword and Sovereignty,' and Where the US Went Wrong
{Comment by Lark}
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http://jonathanturley.org/2013/03/03/a-look-at-some-of-the-driving-forces-behind-the-school-reform-movement-and-the-effort-to-privatize-public-education/#comment-513291
Jonathan Turley
A Look at Some of the Driving Forces behind the School Reform Movement and the Effort to Privatize Public Education
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger
In recent years, we have heard and read a lot about the failure of public schools in the United States. “Our schools are failing” has almost become a mantra with members of the media, many of our politicians, and the advocates of school reform. I have seen few people who have questioned the assertions made by the media, elected officials, and school reformers that schools in this country are not adequately educating our youth and that our educational system is a total and abject failure.
Many of those who criticize our public education system offer charter schools and the privatization of public schools as solutions to the “education problem” in this country.
I’m a retired public school educator. I have known and am friends with many current and former public school teachers. I know that there are many fine classroom practitioners working in our public schools today…and many excellent schools where our children receive a quality education. I am aware that there are also many schools where children may not be receiving the highest quality education. (What often go unmentioned in the media are the real reasons—including poverty—why some schools in this country may be failing.)
One problem with the “our schools are failing” mantra—as I see it—is that all our schools are lumped together in one basket labeled “failing.” How did this come to be? Do we Americans really believe that NO public schools in this country provide their students with an adequate education? Do we believe that all schools need to be reformed? If not, do we believe that even the schools which are actually doing an estimable job of educating their students need to be reformed?
I think it is time we start taking a good look at the individuals and organizations that are behind the push to establish thousands of charter schools and to use taxpayer money to fund private and religious schools as the means of raising the quality of education in this country.
ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council)
Last May, education historian Diane Ravitch wrote the following about one group that has been driving the school reform movement:
Since the 2010 elections, when Republicans took control of many states, there has been an explosion of legislation advancing privatization of public schools and stripping teachers of job protections and collective bargaining rights. Even some Democratic governors, seeing the strong rightward drift of our politics, have jumped on the right-wing bandwagon, seeking to remove any protection for academic freedom from public school teachers.
This outburst of anti-public school, anti-teacher legislation is no accident. It is the work of a shadowy group called the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC. Founded in 1973, ALEC is an organization of nearly 2,000 conservative state legislators. Its hallmark is promotion of privatization and corporate interests in every sphere, not only education, but healthcare, the environment, the economy, voting laws, public safety, etc. It drafts model legislation that conservative legislators take back to their states and introduce as their own “reform” ideas. ALEC is the guiding force behind state-level efforts to privatize public education and to turn teachers into at-will employees who may be fired for any reason. The ALEC agenda is today the “reform” agenda for education.
Ravitch continued:
A recent article in the Newark Star-Ledger showed how closely New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s “reform” legislation is modeled on ALEC’s work in education. Wherever you see states expanding vouchers, charters, and other forms of privatization, wherever you see states lowering standards for entry into the teaching profession, wherever you see states opening up new opportunities for profit-making entities, wherever you see the expansion of for-profit online charter schools, you are likely to find legislation that echoes the ALEC model.
ALEC has been leading the privatization movement for nearly 40 years, but the only thing new is the attention it is getting, and the fact that many of its ideas are now being enacted. Just last week, the Michigan House of Representatives expanded the number of cyber charters that may operate in the state, even though the academic results for such online schools are dismal.
ALEC Exposed provides a wealth of information about how—through ALEC—“corporations, ideologues, and their politician allies voted to spend public tax dollars to subsidize private K-12 education and attack professional teachers and teachers’ unions…” (You can find the information in Privatizing Public Education, Higher Ed Policy, and Teachers–the ALEC report prepared by The Center for American Democracy.)
Michelle Rhee and StudentsFirst
In addition to ALEC, there is another organization called StudentsFirst that has been helping to spearhead the effort to “reform” our public schools. According to Stephanie Simon, Michelle Rhee, founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, has “emerged as the leader of an unlikely coalition of politicians, philanthropists, financiers and entrepreneurs who believe the nation’s $500 billion-a-year public education system needs a massive overhaul.” Simon added that Rhee, the former chancellor of the D.C. public schools, “has vowed to raise $1 billion” for StudentsFirst, and “forever break the hold of teachers unions on education policy.”
Simon continued:
StudentsFirst has its own political action committee (PAC), its own SuperPAC, and a staff of 75, including a cadre of seasoned lobbyists Rhee sends from state to state as political battles heat up. She has flooded the airwaves with TV and radio ads in a half dozen states weighing new policies on charter schools, teacher assessment and other hot-button issues.
To her supporters, Rhee is a once-in-a-generation leader who has the smarts and the star power to make a difference on one of the nation’s most intractable public policy issues.
But critics say Rhee risks destroying the very public schools she aims to save by forging alliances with political conservatives, evangelical groups and business interests that favor turning a large chunk of public education over to the private sector. She won’t disclose her donors, but public records indicate that they include billionaire financiers and wealthy foundations.
In January the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign published its review of Rhee’s StudentsFirst State Policy Report Card for 2013:
Here’s an excerpt from the summary of the campaign’s review:
On Monday, the pro-privatization education group StudentsFirst, led by former D.C. public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, released a State Policy Report Card, ranking states and giving each a letter grade based on their implementation of a slew of education reform policies. Rather than focus on issues facing students and families, particularly those affected by unequal access to school resources, the policy benchmarks in the new report reveal StudentsFirst’s obsession with charter schools and de-professionalizing the teaching profession. The report pushes policies that are either untested or disproven — but happen to be welcome in the halls of right-wing think tanks and politicians.
The National Opportunity to Learn Campaign listed five reasons why the StudentsFrirst Report Card is “a veritable wish list for privatization advocates and a recipe for failure for everyone else”:
1. Ironically, It Ignores The Needs of Students
2. It Opposes Personalized and Student-Centered Learning
3. It Argues That We Don’t Have Enough Quality Teachers… While Advocating That We Lower the Bar for Teacher Preparation
4. It Continues the Disastrous High-Stakes Testing Drumbeat
5. It Advocates “Equal Funding” and “Equitable Access” for Charter Corporations and Private Schools, Not Students
The DeVos Family
In May of 2011, Rachel Tabachnick wrote an article for AlterNet about the DeVos family, a wealthy family that has “remained largely under the radar, while leading a stealth assault on America’s schools” that has the “potential to do away with public education as we know it.”
Quoting Tabachnick:
Vouchers have always been a staple of the right-wing agenda. Like previous efforts, this most recent push for vouchers is led by a network of conservative think tanks, PACs, Religious Right groups and wealthy conservative donors. But “school choice,” as they euphemistically paint vouchers, is merely a means to an end. Their ultimate goal is the total elimination of our public education system.
The decades-long campaign to end public education is propelled by the super-wealthy, right-wing DeVos family. Betsy Prince DeVos is the sister of Erik Prince, founder of the notorious private military contractor Blackwater USA (now Xe), and wife of Dick DeVos, son of the co-founder of Amway, the multi-tiered home products business.
According to Tabachnick, the Devoses, who are big contributors to the Republican Party, spent millions of dollars “promoting the failed voucher initiative in Michigan in 2000.” Following that defeat, Tabachnick claims that the family decided to alter its strategy.
Tabachnick:
Instead of taking the issue directly to voters, they would support bills for vouchers in state legislatures. In 2002 Dick DeVos gave a speech on school choice at the Heritage Foundation. After an introduction by former Reagan Secretary of Education William Bennett, DeVos described a system of “rewards and consequences” to pressure state politicians to support vouchers. “That has got to be the battle. It will not be as visible,” stated DeVos. He described how his wife Betsy was putting these ideas into practice in their home state of Michigan and claimed this effort has reduced the number of anti-school choice Republicans from six to two. The millions raised from the wealthy pro-privatization contributors would be used to finance campaigns of voucher supporters and purchase ads attacking opposing candidates.
Dick DeVos advocates “stealth” strategy, Heritage Foundation, December 3, 2002
Last April, Daniel Denvir wrote an article for City Paper about the push for a school voucher program in the state of Pennsylvania. He said that names on the fliers of “legislative hopefuls” sounded like the names of “homegrown” candidates. He said that a “different picture” emerged when one followed the money:
…that of a statewide campaign, funded by wealthy donors, to stack the Pennsylvania primary battles on April 24 in favor of those supporting school vouchers, which allocate taxpayer funds for private and religious school tuition. The pro-voucher political action committee (PAC) Students First — funded by Pennsylvania hedge-fund managers and American Federation for Children, a Washington, D.C., pro-voucher group headed by Amway heiress and major right-wing donor Betsy DeVos — emerged on the state’s political scene with a bang for the 2010 elections. And they are back to spend big in 2012.
Lawrence Feinberg, co-chairman of the anti-voucher Keystone State Education Coalition, said, “I see a move by essentially a handful of very wealthy people who want to privatize public education for a wide variety of reasons. Not the least of which has to do with crushing labor unions, but they also want tax dollars going to private and religious schools.”
School Reform and The Profit Motive
In his Salon article The Bait and Switch of School “Reform,” David Sirota writes about the profit motive behind some of the reforms being advocated by “Big Money” interests.
Sirota:
As the Texas Observer recently reported in its exposé of one school-focused mega-corporation, “in the past two decades, an education-reform movement has swept the country, pushing for more standardized testing and accountability and for more alternatives to the traditional classroom — most of it supplied by private companies.”
A straightforward example of how this part of the profit-making scheme works arose just a few months ago in New York City. There, Rupert Murdoch dumped $1 million into a corporate “reform” movement pushing to both implement more standardized testing and divert money for education fundamentals (hiring teachers, buying textbooks, maintaining school buildings, etc.) into testing-assessment technology. At the same time, Murdoch was buying an educational technology company called Wireless Generation, which had just signed a lucrative contract with New York City’s school system (a sweetheart deal inked by New York City school official Joel Klein, who immediately went to work for Murdoch.
Such shenanigans are increasingly commonplace throughout America, resulting in a revenue jackpot for testing companies and high tech firms, even though many of their products have not objectively improved student achievement.
At the same time, major banks are reaping a windfall from “reformers’” successful efforts to take public money out of public schools and put it into privately administered charter schools. As the New York Daily News recently reported:
“Wealthy investors and major banks have been making windfall profits by using a little-known federal tax break to finance new charter-school construction. The program, the New Markets Tax Credit, is so lucrative that a lender who uses it can almost double his money in seven years…
“The credit can even be piggybacked on other tax breaks for historic preservation or job creation. By combining the various credits with the interest from the loan itself, a lender can almost double his investment over the seven-year period.
“No wonder JPMorgan Chase announced this week it was creating a new $325 million pool to invest in charter schools and take advantage of the New Markets Tax Credit.”
SOURCES
Ravitch: A primer on the group driving school reform (Washington Post)
Activist targeting schools, backed by big bucks (Reuters)
5 Ways Michelle Rhee’s Report Puts Students Last (National Opportunity to Learn Campaign)
The DeVos Family: Meet the Super-Wealthy Right-Wingers Working With the Religious Right to Kill Public Education (AlterNet)
Right-Wing Campaign to Privatize Public Ed Takes Hold in Pennsylvania (AlterNet)
Big corporate money in support of school vouchers hits primary races statewide. Will it tip the scales in Philly? (City Paper)
The bait and switch of school “reform” (Salon)
The Deep Pockets Behind Education Reform (Forbes)
Privatizing Public Education, Higher Ed Policy, and Teachers (The Center for American Democracy)
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1st Comment by Lark
What? No mention of Common Core? That’s been implemented in some 47 states?
No mention of the The Communitarian Network, the Frankfurt School or John Dewey’s and the Marxian technocrats’ influence/vision on today’s refashioning [language manipulation]… of P20 OBE (Pre-school through Graduate School Outcomes Based Education)?
I’m shocked! Just shocked!
Perhaps this discussion deserves wider perspective. Would parents go along with a communitarian, cultural Marxist education agenda if they knew how carefully [and deceptively] it was being kept hidden from them?
That public education was being employed as a covert weapon of modern warfare? Against ‘We, the People’? That their little darlin’s are no longer even taught phonics anymore?
What central planning genius dreamt this one up? No wonder Johnny and Emily can’t read or write. Or ~heaven forbid~ even ‘think’ with the shoddy tools they’ve been handed by the ‘philosopher-kings’ intending to do them grave harm. So that, hey, a proper grounding in the English language… is now thought… passe? Puhhh-leeeeeeze!
(‘Look-Say method’, ‘whole language’, ‘psycholinguistics’, ‘sight reading’ ‘balanced literacy’ – could it be our ‘free trade’ and immigration policies, multiculturalism, and yes, ‘diversity’ are destroying the very soul of this country [with its debauched 'currency'] from the inside out?)
How many Americans are aware of Horace Mann – the avowed socialist – the man our history books call the ‘father of American public education’?
I say we close down ALL these decrepit social [-ist] engineering and brainwashing factories. Then present young people and their families with real freedom-of-choice again.
With that accomplished, we should next all go to work and then entirely eliminate the [unconscionably] un-American property taxes which keep feeding this [mind control] cancer!
After that… those bloodsucking central bankers – our SLAVEMASTERS!
[monopoly State] capitalism + [federalism] corporatism + [British 'Anglo-American' bankster/big corporate-controlled 'free trade'] mercantilism + [cultural, 'socioeconomic', political] communism
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[world-socialism; syndicalism; neoliberalism; parasitism; totalitarianism]
~communitarianism~
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socialism = gangsterism = slavery
The Invisible Man (1897), by HG Wells
The New World Order (1939), by HG Wells
http://CommonCore.org
Common Core
http://InvisibleSerfsCollar.com
Invisible Serfs Collar
The Fabian Society, Communitarianism and the New World Order
This video is a very brief, six-minute introduction to the British Fabian Society, which was established on orders from the Crown in 1884, with the purpose of creating a movement to usher in by stealth a one world government.
The ideology promoted by Fabians and Fabian thinkers is called communitarianism, which is also sometimes referred to (by people like Tony Blair) as the 'Third Way'. The Third Way refers to the synthesis of capitalism and socialism in the dialectic scheme.
This dialectical synthesis, or outcome, is to be a collectivist form of government where all individualism is forcibly relinquished in the name of "unity" and complete and unwavering allegiance to the state under a scientific, socialistic dictatorship run by "experts."
This is to be a system run on complete and total efficiency, where the only purpose of the individual is to serve the state. The so-called "useless eaters," as people like Kissinger refer to, are seen as only a burden to this efficiency, and therefore will be incarcerated or killed if this system is allowed to be fully implemented. This is precisely why the "Elite" want an 80-90% reduction of the world's population, with just enough peasants to serve their utopia, described in writings by people such as Huxley and Fabian H.G. Wells, and promoted still today in well-funded works of propaganda such as Zeitgeist, which are designed to promote the New World Order religion.
This video is a very brief, six-minute introduction to the British Fabian Society, which was established on orders from the Crown in 1884, with the purpose of creating a movement to usher in by stealth a one world government.
The ideology promoted by Fabians and Fabian thinkers is called communitarianism, which is also sometimes referred to (by people like Tony Blair) as the 'Third Way'. The Third Way refers to the synthesis of capitalism and socialism in the dialectic scheme.
This dialectical synthesis, or outcome, is to be a collectivist form of government where all individualism is forcibly relinquished in the name of "unity" and complete and unwavering allegiance to the state under a scientific, socialistic dictatorship run by "experts."
This is to be a system run on complete and total efficiency, where the only purpose of the individual is to serve the state. The so-called "useless eaters," as people like Kissinger refer to, are seen as only a burden to this efficiency, and therefore will be incarcerated or killed if this system is allowed to be fully implemented. This is precisely why the "Elite" want an 80-90% reduction of the world's population, with just enough peasants to serve their utopia, described in writings by people such as Huxley and Fabian H.G. Wells, and promoted still today in well-funded works of propaganda such as Zeitgeist, which are designed to promote the New World Order religion.
@Elaine
Get your children out of the public schools… even the colleges and universities… and fast!
If you really want the straight skinny, the go-to source is Atlanta attorney Ms. Robin Eubanks… of the Invisible Serfs Collar blog.
http://InvisibleSerfsCollar.com
Robin’s a very concerned mom. And she’s extremely well-researched. I’d suggest you give her a shout, as she’s quite friendly, open and honest about sharing her findings.
P.S. – The teachers and parents themselves are being hoodwinked – with the teachers facing the loss of their J-O-B-S and benefit packages if they don’t bend over and become complicit in the fraud and criminality of it all. The superintendents and principals, the same – if they don’t comply and produce the expected ‘results’… their middle class statuses [if not their 'upward mobility']… and their career pathways are blocked… or else they are literally ruined [devastated financially]!
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Single Comment by Robin Eubanks
Hi Elaine.
Marxism properly understood is about targeting human consciousness. And I did not know that until researching why what had worked in the past was being shut down under Race to the Top and what had been controversial was being expanded. And all the language about “Just enough content knowledge.” Following up on all that eventually took me back to Uncle Karl. Here’s a basic explanation I did some months ago http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/political-primer-101-what-is-the-marxist-theory-of-the-mind-and-why-does-it-matter-in-2012/
On reading most schools in fact do not teach phonics systematically because phonetic reading bolsters the abstract mind. The current theories prevailing in education are to keep everything concrete and in context. Symbol systems like using letters for sounds are math symbols that do not reflect something “real” again fuel the logical, rational mind. That’s not me saying this. I am simply relaying what psych and sociology and ed professors have said is the reason they push a whole word or look-say emphasis.
Now obviously being honest about the lack of a systematic phonetic orientation or the insistence kids will read only words made known to them or ed schools now insisting words be taught as a whole or by syllable would not be politically popular. So phonics gets thrown in to obscure the sight word orientation.
Most of the reading methods being pushed under the Common Core track back to Marie Clay or Fountas & Pinnell. It is called Guided Reading but it all tracks back ultimately to psycholinguistics and Wilhelm Wundt. One of the founders of the field of psychology in the 19th century.
Trust me. I wish there was no link to Uncle Karl and that the actual Common Core implementation was a skit as humorous as Duck Soup. But those are not the intentions or the plans and the skullduggery here is bipartisan. Your descriptions of the Corporatism links are right on the money. In fact I heard Joel Klein speak about that sub that is now known as Amplify. I wrote a post about his claim that we are seeking “new kinds of minds.”
I do not think any politician has the right to be selling that goal.
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