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Monday, July 22, 2013
State of Mind-The Psychology of Control - Must Watch Documentary
Here is a superb new documentary from the crew that produced the award-winning: A Noble Lie, the definitive documentary exposing the role of the FBI and intelligence agencies in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995. In State of Mind-The Psychology of Control the filmmakers explore the tools and techniques the oligarchy uses to control the masses who get their reality through the tell-a-vision and glossy magazines of the bought-and-paid-for monopolized MainStreamMedia. The film covers propaganda, the history and hidden curriculum of mandatory government "schooling", and the science behind how the flicker rate of the tell-a-vision puts viewers into an alpha wave brain state where information is received uncritically. As of this writing the on-line version of the documentary has gone viral garnering over 200,000+ views in a less than a week.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Peg Luksik: 'Who Controls Our Children?
Educational activist Peg Luksik discusses how the federal government got the States to adopt essentially the exact same curriculum while masturbating the naive citizens into thinking that they were actually developing the curriculum themselves.
Friday, May 4, 2012
5 Outdated Concepts to Remove From Public Schools
Bohemian Mom
Activist Post
In a previous article, I offered 5 Ways to Improve the Public School Experience with Unschooling Techniques.
As an unschooling parent, I often struggle with the thoughts of what happens to all the other children that are still in the public school system. While we believe very strongly in the benefits of having our children at home and following an unschooling lifestyle, I know that it is simply not possible for everyone.
I feel that the public school system is a completely inefficient model for gaining knowledge. Our public school systems are deeply rooted in an archaic mindset that we should consider updating to be in step with current technological and societal advancements.
With the foundational goals of happiness, confidence, safety, and encouraging children to seek out their own passion, I think it is time that we look at what we should remove from public school philosophy, so that we prepare our children better for the real world that awaits beyond the orchestrated schoolyard experience.
Separation of children by age
The practice of separating children by age only fosters the idea that we cannot work with others that are different. This couldn't be further from the truth. Not only is working with different age groups good for development, but it also keeps in mind the highly variable rates at which young children develop. Not all five year olds are on the same level. Why not offer them the opportunity to learn from older children, or to help younger ones?
Having a wide range of ages in a classroom will do a couple things. For starters, young children seem to benefit greatly by learning from older children, as they love to emulate older siblings and peers. Older children gain a confidence and pride in helping others and learn to be more tolerant and considerate of others when they are helping younger children. It benefits everyone and can easily be arranged.
Mentoring programs are wonderful and they work well. But why not offer that same type of interaction in school? Institute an age range of possibly 3-4 grade levels together, at least for certain subjects and activities. Play with it and see what best works for the students. Montessori schools are already doing this and it works well to foster creativity and self-esteem. Two things that seem to be falling by the wayside in our school system at the moment.
Testing
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores. - Alfie Kohn
Testing our children is sold to us under the auspices of accountability. How on earth will we know what our children know and if the teachers are doing their job without the tests, they tell us. Accountability should come from parents' and children’s happiness. Not everyone will be pleased, but if the overall sentiment is positive and the children enjoy their days, that should be enough. Again, if parents had choices, they could simply choose a school that emphasizes testing or one that does not.
Universal testing of children is no longer an accurate measure of ability. Book smarts and ability are not universal. Additionally, many teachers complain that they are losing any autonomy they once had in the classroom in an effort to teach to the tests. The quality and flexibility of education drops as the focus is solely put on what the test makers think is important. Meanwhile, kids are having creativity and diversity sucked out of their lives. Finally, every answer to the questions on these so-called tests could be found or calculated with a tablet in seconds. So, really, what's the point?
Busy work
Busy work is a huge component to homework and the need for children to be in school so many hours a day. Relaxation or free time is not appreciated at all, yet we all need it. Playing games and interacting with parents and siblings is a far more useful way for children to spend their time. If they are done with their work in the classroom, allow and encourage them to do what they want. They will still be busy, but busy working on what has value to them. Isn't that important enough? Even forcing them into full-time extracurricular activities can be harmful.
In my opinion, homework should be done away with altogether (I can hear all the children cheering now). When a second-grader is in school all day, five days a week, why on earth do they need to do more school work? It's madness! Mindless worksheets just to have the appearance that they are always working or always learning. I have news for you; they are always learning, and usually most effectively through play. Get rid of homework all together, and allow children time to be with friends and family, play, and view the world on their own terms.
Long hours away from home
We ask children to do for most of the day what few adults are able to do for even an hour. How many of us, attending, say, a lecture that doesn’t interest us, can keep our minds from wandering? Hardly any. - John Holt
Simply put, our children are overworked and separated for far too many hours from their family. Family ties are extremely important for child development, especially when children are young. Interaction with their siblings, parents, extended family and pets is vital to their formation of identity. At this point, we see our children for a very limited time during the day, and that time gets quickly eaten up with duties like extracurricular activities, homework, baths, dinner, and sleep.
Cut back the hours that they are in the classroom spent on traditional means of educating. If we have smaller class sizes, then 4 hours per day should be plenty to gain what currently is achieved in 7 or so hours. If parents struggle with work commitments, then use that other time to allow children creative outlets to explore their world. Plant gardens, allow computer time, set up apprenticeships for older children, etc. Let children decide what they want to do and get them involved in it.
Institutional feel of classrooms
If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom. - John Medina
Schools and classrooms are overly institutional feeling, which is cold and unhealthy. The oppressive rules are increasingly prison-like. This stifles creativity and curiosity and makes our children accept the life of living in a box. I know building all new schools is not possible, but bringing the outdoors inside, allowing classroom time to be outdoors, colorfully painting, and encouraging ideas from children are all things that can be done to help this.
When a new school is being built consider what would foster your own creativity, what would help allow you to see the world and all its possibilities. Isn't that the best we can give to our children?
The bottom line is that no matter what you think of homeschooling or unschooling, the public education system needs a massive paradigm shift. How can it hurt to incorporate new ideas into the classroom? I know many of you reading will probably question how to fund these changes. But again I would argue that it may not be about increasing funding, but rather a simple change in how and what we are funding.
You may say I am a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. - John Lennon.
I know there are more people out there that see the pitfalls in the way our children are being educated. Let’s stand up together and make a change!
Thursday, February 2, 2012
How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State
Public education, in its current state, is based on the idea that government is the "parent" best equipped to provide children with the values and wisdom required to grow into intelligent, functional adults. To echo what former first lady Hillary Clinton professed, these public school champions believe "it takes a village" to cultivate a society of competent human beings.
As Hebrew University historian Martin van Crevald points out in his book, The Rise and Decline of the State, nineteenth-century state worshippers who wanted to impose a love of big government ideals upon the youth popularized the archetype for state-directed education. Additionally, there was an overall appetite for discipline of the "unruly" masses that reinforced the campaign to take education out of the hands of individuals. After all, the self-educated masses might resist government decrees, and this kind of disarray would be undesirable in the move toward building a powerful, controlling state apparatus. Prussia's Frederick William I and France's Napoleon discerned this, as did a legion of other despotic rulers throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In a recent article published on the American Daily Herald "Dumberer and Dumberest," Glenn Horowitz writes:
If you're not familiar with it, the Prussian system was a teaching methodology designed to stamp out good little worker bees assembly-line fashion, trained to be complacent with their station in life and compliant with every demand of the State. An elite of those better educated but still proven unquestioningly loyal to the State were promoted to lead the proletariat, rewarded with elevated status and material success commensurate with their skills and the zeal they demonstrate in supporting the system. It specifically avoided developing creativity and independent thought, reasoning these were skills the worker classes didn't need in their roles as mass produced labor.
Modern education is built upon a foundation set forth by tyrants. What is most disquieting about the public education mindset is that those who believe most strongly in it are convinced that there are no other suitable alternatives to the compulsory schooling provided via the public domain. The egalitarian core belief of these public education proponents is that society is responsible for obtaining, maintaining, and paying for the process of equally developing young minds.
Since the laws of the modern state that control the educational system lean heavily toward equality, federal compulsory schooling is necessarily a bias against the best and brightest of America’s children. Federalized education sustains the philosophy that schools have the obligation to treat all students as pure equals – equal in intelligence, work ethic, performance, and desire.
Such nonsense is refuted by H. George Resch in his article "Equality vs. Equity" on the Separation of School and State website. Mr. Resch contends that compulsory, government-controlled education is trying to achieve ends that are not possible due to the fact that general equality is not only impossible to define, but that biological, environmental, and cultural differences among us are so vast that a compulsory, standardized public education poses difficulties that cannot be overcome, and certainly not by a government-run school system.
It's obvious that public schooling is neither beneficial to most students, nor is it efficient. Education is an acquired good, a good that has to meet the needs of the consumers or else face rejection in the free market. Accordingly, there is a necessity for unique, private educational institutions that cater to the urgencies of the marketplace, or home schools that provide a quality environment for each student's direct needs.
In a blog titled "Farmville USA," writer Skip Oliva presents the idea that public schooling is organized along the same principles as factory farming.
Public schooling is based on the same organizational principles as factory farming. They are both modern procedures designed to replace ancient methods of child-rearing and rural farming, respectively. Both rely on a core principle of confinement. In factory farming, animals are generally kept indoors in confined pens for duration of their lives. If we’re talking about male cattle raised for veal, they are literally confined to a small box and denied any exercise whatsoever. With public schooling, children are confined indoors for the majority of daylight hours and, in lower grades, generally restricted to a single classroom. They are expected to sit quietly at desks – analogous to a factory animal cage – with only limited exercise approved for limited, scheduled intervals. Animals and children alike are deprived of the ability to fulfill their natural desire to exercise and explore their outdoor environments.
The confinement of children on the part of authoritarian figures who demand mandatory attendance illustrates how the federal public school system has become a security garrison with satellite detainment facilities. Moreover, yanking children from their parents and assimilating them into dumbed-down, draconian learning pools based on age and collectivizing their learning experience in a quasi-prison environment hasn't worked, and it will never be ideal for the vast majority of the children. Skip Oliva continues:
There is also the issue of socialization. Many farmed animals, including cows, pigs and rabbits, are naturally sociable and psychologically require healthy contact with other members of their species, particularly with their mothers during adolescence. Factory farming largely ignores those relationships. Young cattle are often denied any maternal contact, in order to preserve the mother’s milk for human consumption. Animals are often caged or together in inadequate indoor facilities which promote the spread of disease, aggressive fighting and even cannibalism. Similarly, when children are confined in large classrooms, they are more exposed to communicable diseases and subject to anti-social behaviors such as bullying.
Of course, proponents of schooling claim socialization is a primary benefit, especially compared with continued instruction from a parent (aka "homeschooling"). Yet as is true with most high-order mammals, human children require an extended period of exclusive access to a parent, ideally the mother, who serves as a model for proper social behavior. Children of the same age are inadequate substitutes. They cannot model behaviors that they themselves have not learned. Nor is a teacher in a position to do so, as one person is incapable of developing the necessary relationship of trust with several dozen children during normal "business" hours.
The reality of public schools in America is that they resemble prisons, holding children captive and subjecting them to monitoring, authoritarian supervision, arbitrary rules, prescribed conformity, coerced abstinence, zero tolerance insanity, irrational fears, invasion of privacy, prison-like security, unlawful searches, mind-controlling drugs, and the police state. John Taylor Gatto, in his essay, "Some Reflections on the Equivalencies Between Forced Schooling and Prison," noted that America’s public schools and its penal system are alike because within each environment an individual’s movements, thoughts, and associations are regarded with great suspicion and are therefore controlled. Gatto explains:
Almost all Americans have had an intense school experience which occupied their entire youth, an experience during which they were drilled thoroughly in the culture and economy of the well-schooled greater society, in which individuals have been rendered helpless to do much of anything except watch television or punch buttons on a keypad.
Before you begin to blame the childish for being that way and join the chorus of those defending the general imprisonment of adults and the schooling by force of children because there isn't any other way to handle the mob, you want to at least consider the possibility that we've been trained in childishness and helplessness for a reason. And that reason is that helpless people are easy to manage. Helpless people can be counted upon to act as their own jailers because they are so inadequate to complex reality they are afraid of new experience. They're like animals whose spirits have been broken. Helpless people take orders well, they don't have minds of their own, they are predictable, they won't surprise corporations or governments with resistance to the newest product craze, the newest genetic patent – or by armed revolution. Helpless people can be counted on to despise independent citizens and hence they act as a fifth column in opposition to social change in the direction of personal sovereignty.
In 2009, a compelling documentary was produced that focuses on the control and containment that is the government’s compulsory school system: The War on Kids . This documentary has not received the attention it deserves, but every parent who has a child that has received a sentence of thirteen (or more) years in the compulsory schooling environment should watch this film.
Note in Part 2 where the filmmaker visually shows how so many of the public schools look exactly like prisons. Some of the footage you will see throughout the film is staggering, and some of the interviews with public school bureaucrats are remarkably creepy. Here is the website for the movie, and this is the general information presented for the film (it is shown in six parts on TagTélé).
In 95 minutes, THE WAR ON KIDS exposes the many ways the public school system has failed children and our future by robbing students of all freedoms due largely to irrational fears. Children are subjected to endure prison-like security, arbitrary punishments, and pharmacological abuse through the forced prescription of dangerous drugs. Even with these measures, schools not only fail to educate students, but the drive to teach has become secondary to the need to control children. Not only do school fall short of their mission to educate, but they erode the country’s democratic foundation and often resemble prisons.
School children are interviewed, as are high school teachers and administrators, and prison security guards, plus renowned educators and authors including:
Henry Giroux: Author of Stealing Innocence Corporate Culture's War on Children
Mike A. Males: Sociologist, author of Scapegoat Generation
John Gatto: New York City and New York State Teacher of the Year
Judith Browne: Associate Director of the Advancement Project
Dan Losen: The Civil Liberties Project, Harvard University
The War on Kids, Part 1: http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/47708
The War on Kids, Part 2: http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/47730/1/
The War on Kids, Part 3: http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/47711/1/
The War on Kids, Part 4: http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/47734/1/
The War on Kids, Part 5: http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/47846/1/
The War on Kids, Part 6: http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/47945/1/
Karen De Coster, CPA [rothbardiancpa@yahoo.com] is an accounting/finance professional in the healthcare industry and a freelance writer, blogger, speaker, and sometimes unpaid troublemaker. She writes about libertarian stuff, economics, financial markets, the medical establishment, the Corporate State, health totalitarianism, and other essentially, anything that encroaches upon the freedom of her fellow human beings. When she has a few moments of spare time she prefers to do functional fitness, kayak the Detroit River, and drink hot toddies. This is her LewRockwell.com archive and her Mises.org archive. Check out her website. Follow her on Twitter @karendecoster.
Monday, January 2, 2012
28 Signs That U.S. Public Schools Are Rapidly Being Turned Into Indoctrination Centers And Prison Camps

Thursday, September 29, 2011
The Pledge of Allegiance to Citigroup, J&J, General Electric, and Ritalin

Until 1942 American school kids used the same Roman salute as the Nazis and Italian socialists/fascists. After the crimes of these regimes became apparent the US government changed up the look of the pledge but the practice of having children pledge their allegiance to the government in government schools led by government teachers continues to this day. The Prussian Model of education that was adopted by the US Government was openly developed by the Prussian government to instill obedience to the state to ensure support for the government taxation schemes and to get the population to easily conscript into the military and obey the orders of commanders.
This video from the sketch comedy troupe Whitest Kids U Know destroys the legitimacy of a system where young, impressionable children are forced by teachers and peer pressure to grow up swearing allegiance to a government that is openly controlled by corporate special interests that receive hundreds of billions from the government and then spend hundreds of millions supporting the candidacies of the politicians voting them money. The video also openly mocks the pharmaceutical company programs that drug MILLIONS of children every year in the schools.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
1500+ Architects and Engineers Prove 9-11 Was an Inside Job
Because the Central Bankster-owned MainStreamMedia keeps Americans immersed in a sea of propaganda and distraction, most are not aware that thousands of architects, structural engineers, physicists, chemical engineers, demolition experts, and other technical professionals have examined the evidence of 9-11 and concluded that the official story is a lie and that explosives were used to bring down the twin towers and a third skyscraper: WTC 7 on 9-11.
WTC 7 is the "Smoking Gun" of 9-11. A 47 story modern steel-framed skyscraper that collapsed completely and symmetrically into its own footprint at free-fall speed.. Defying the laws of physics and displaying all the hallmarks of a controlled demolition: blast squibs, symmetrical collapse, free-fall acceleration, melted steel, and even unreacted military-grade thermitic material found in the debris. The building was the CIA and NSA's headquarters in New York City... The largest CIA base in the world outside of Langley. It contained New York City's "Emergency Management Center" which was coincidentally built the year before 9-11 with blast-proof windows, its own oxygen supply, uninterrupted power, and military-grade communications... all overlooking the World Trade Center complex.
But the government school system continues to teach kids that 9-11 was the work of 19 arabs who couldn't even fly light aircraft operating out of a cave in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Charlotte Iserbyt: The Secret History of Western Education & Scientific Destruction of Minds
Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan. While working there she discovered a long term strategic plan by the tax exempt foundations to transform America from a nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they’re told. Iserbyt breaks down how conditioning/training under a corporate agenda has replaced traditional education, leading to a deliberate dumbing down of Americans. Iserbyt further explains how Reagan signed agreements merging the U.S. and Soviet systems under the United Nations banner, turning over education and many other areas of public policy to global control.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Fluoride - Poison in our Kid's (and Teacher's!) Water
One of the techniques the government uses to keep the tax slaves under control is to put the toxic chemical Fluoride, which lowers IQ, in the water. The substance that is put into the public's water supply to, supposedly, prevent dental caries is fluorosilicic acid in Loudoun/Fairfax and Sodium Fluoride in other jurisdictions both of which are the toxic byproducts of aluminum and fertilizer manufacture. It is undeniable that fluorosilicic acid is poisonous. It states that it is poisonous on its Material Safety Data Sheet that the government requires on all toxic chemicals transported through the US. It states that it is poisonous on the labels on the bags that are received by the water treatment plants. The notoriously pro-government Wikipedia admits it is poisonous, as do Natural News and the Mercola Natural Health Newsletter which are the most widely subscribed health newsletters in the world. It is so toxic that I have been told by a superintendent of a water treatment facility that its fumes alone will actually etch/ruin glass in the rooms where it is stored and used.
How Fluoride is Harming Our Kids and Teachers
Lower IQ - Fluoride has been linked to lower IQ in 23 published studies from around the world.
Major Health Issues including: Tyroid Problems including Hypothyroidism, Gastrointestinal Tract Problems, Compromised Immune System, Cancer,
Dental Fluorosis - Ironically, Fluoride ingestion in the early years damages the tooth-forming cells leading to a defect in the tooth enamel and discoloration known as Dental Fluorisis.
Does Fluoride Even Protect Teeth From Cavities?
Not really. Here is information from the Fluoride Action Network:
"According to the current consensus view of the dental research community, fluoride's primary - if not sole - benefit to teeth comes from topical application to the surfaces of teeth (while in the mouth), and not from ingestion.
It is also acknowledged by dental researchers that fluoride has little effect on preventing cavities in the pits and fissures (chewing surfaces) of teeth - where the majority of tooth decay occurs.
Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, tooth decay rates have declined at similar rates in all western countries in the latter half of the 20th century - irrespective of whether the country fluoridates its water or not. Today, tooth decay rates thoughout continental western Europe are as low as the tooth decay rates in the United States - despite a profound disparity in water fluoridation prevalence in the two regions.
Within countries that do fluoridate their water (such as the United States and Australia), recent large-scale surveys of dental health - utilizing modern scientific methods not employed in the early surveys from the 1930s-1950s - have found little difference in tooth decay, including in "baby bottle tooth decay", between fluoridated and unfluoridated communities."

Do Other Countries Fluoridate the Water?
Very Few as the Chart above Indicates:
- 97% of western Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to the known health risks, however 10% of Britons drink it and the UK government is trying to fast track the fluoridation of the entire country’s water supply.
- In Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg fluoridation of water was rejected because it was classified as compulsive medication against the subject’s will and therefore violated fundamental human rights.
Who Say Fluoride is Good for You?
The Federal Government - The US Public Health Service has been promoting fluoridation for 30 years and it doesn't appear that they are willing to admit their mistake anytime soon. The Federal Government is getting 50% of the public's income for its unconstitutional and flagrantly criminal activities so they have an interest in a dumbed-down and docile public. The scientists and toxicologists of the Enviornmental Protection Agency disagree and, through their union, have testified before Congress on the toxicology of Fluoride (See below).
The American Dental Association - The ADA has a government-granted monopoly on the training and certification of dentists. It also receives financial compensation from the toothpaste companies for the use of its imprimatur on every box of toothpaste so it can hardly be called unbiased. Many ADA dentists disagree and actually market themselves as "Fluoride-Free Dentists" to appeal to the intelligentsia. The ADA's public position on Fluoride has been refuted point-by-point @ http://www.fluoridedebate.com/
The Aluminum and Fertilizer Industries - These multi-billion dollar industries would be forced to pay about $10,000 per tank car to dump their hazardous waste in a Class A landfill vs. making an equivalent amount selling it to public health services to be dumped into the water supply.
Who Disagrees and is Sounding the Alarm?
14 Nobel Laureates in Medicine and Chemistry - List compiled by the Dr. Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry at St. Lawrence University in his important monograph: 50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation (Appendix 4)
1) Adolf Butenandt (Chemistry, 1939)
2) Arvid Carlsson (Medicine, 2000) - Video Interview on Subject
3) Hans von Euler-Chelpin (Chemistry, 1929).
4) Walter Rudolf Hess (Medicine, 1949)
5) Corneille Jean-François Heymans (Medicine, 1938)
6) Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (Chemistry, 1956)
7) Joshua Lederberg (Medicine, 1958)
8) William P. Murphy (Medicine, 1934)
8) Giulio Natta (1963 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
10) Sir Robert Robinson (Chemistry, 1947)
11) Nikolai Semenov (Chemistry, 1956)
12) James B. Sumner (Chemistry, 1946)
13) Hugo Theorell (Medicine, 1955)
14) Artturi Virtanen (Chemistry, 1945)
The Scientists and Toxicologists of the Environmental Protection Agency - The EPA's own scientists and toxicologists, through their union, have testified before Congress on the toxicology of Fluoride and requested that it be removed from the water.
Dr. William J. Hirzy, Senior Vice President of the EPA's Union testifying before the Senate on the toxicology of Fluoride and calling for a moratorium
Dr. William Marcus, the Former Chief Toxicologist of the EPA's Water Quality Program - Dr. Marcus was an EPA whistleblower who was fired after publishing scientific reports on the toxicity of fluoride and recommending that it be taken out drinking water. Dr. Marcus' case was taken up by the Nation Whistleblower's Center which protects government employees from retaliation for publishing damaging facts about the government. He fought a two year legal battle where it came out that EPA lied, shredded documents, and falsified documents in their campaign against him. EPA was ordered to reinstate Dr. Marcus and pay back wages and damages for its actions.
Harvard School of Dental Health Researcher Elise Bassin - Dr. Bassin research confirmed a link between fluoridated water and higher incidence of bone cancer in children that had originally been identified in research by the National Toxicology Program in rats. The Washington Post called Bassin's 2001 Doctoral Thesis work that showed this correlation in children "is considered the most rigorous human study to date on a possible connection between fluoridation and osteosarcoma, a rare but lethal form of cancer that affects males nearly twice as often as females". Illustrative of the way that monied interests have and continue to cloud the issue, Dr. Bassin's faculty advisor at Harvard, Dr. Chester Douglass, appears to have suppressed this research within the School of Dental Health. It was discovered that he was on the payroll of fluoridated toothpaste manufacturer Colgate as an editor of the Colgate Oral Health Report. The Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization, stepped in to ask federal officials to open an investigation into Dr. Douglass' conduct in the matter which they did.
Thousands of Health, Environmental & Scientific Professionals - The Fluoride Action Network, the leading organization fighting water fluoridation, has put together a Professionals Statement to End Fluoridation which has been signed by over 3,000+ Health, Environmental and Scientific Professionals. Signers include:
• Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, 2000
• Vyvyan Howard, MD, PhD, Immediate Past President, International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE)
• Ingrid Eckerman, MD, MPH, President, Swedish Doctors for the Environment (LFM), Stockholm, Sweden
• Raul Montenegro, PhD, Right Livelihood Award 2004 (known as the Alternative Nobel Prize), President of FUNAM, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
• The current President and six past Presidents of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
• Three scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Headquarters Union in Washington D.C.
* William Marcus, PhD, Former chief toxicologist of the EPA Water Division, Boyds, MD
• Three members of the National Research Council committee who wrote the landmark 2006 report: Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA's Standards (Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS; Robert L. Isaacson, PhD; Kathleen M. Thiessen, PhD)
• The Board of Directors, American Academy of Environmental Medicine
• Two advisory board members of the UK government sponsored “York Review”
• Andy Harris, MD, former national president, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Salem, OR
• Theo Colborn, PhD, co-author, Our Stolen Future
• Lynn Margulis, PhD, a recipient of the National Medal of Science
• Ken Cook and Richard Wiles, President and Executive Director, Environmental Working Group (EWG)
• Ron Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers Association
• Magda Aelvoet, MD, Former Minister of Public Health, Leuven, BELGIUM
• Doug Everingham, former Federal Health Minister (1972-75), Australia
• Peter Montague, PhD, Director of Environmental Health Foundation
• Ted Schettler, MD, Science Director, Science and Environmental Health Network
• Stephen Lester, Science Director, Center for Health, Environment, and Justice
• Lois Gibbs, Executive Director, Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, Goldman Prize Winner (1990), Falls Church, VA
• Rosalie Bertell, PhD, Regent of the Board, International Physicians for Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland, Retired President, International Institute of Concern for Public Health, Toronto, Canada
• FIVE Goldman Prize winners (2006, 2003, 1997, 1995, 1990)
• Sam Epstein, MD, author, “Politics of Cancer” and Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition
• Pat Costner, retired Senior Scientist, Greenpeace International
• Jay Feldman, Executive Director, Beyond Pesticides
• Sandra Duffy, Board President, Consumers for Dental Choice
• Joseph Mercola, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, http://www.mercola.com, Chicago, IL
• Michael W. Fox, DSc, PhD, BVM, MRCVS (former vice president of The Humane Society of the US, former vice president of Humane Society International and the author of more than 40 adult and children’s books on animal care, animal behavior and bioethics), http://www.twobitdog.com/DrFox/, Minneapolis, MN
• Leo Cashman, Executive Director of DAMS (Dental Amalgam Mercury Syndrome)
• Chris Bryson, author, The Fluoride Deception
• Environmental leaders from over 30 countries, and
• Legendary folksinger, songwriter and activist, Pete Seeger
Some Honest MainStreamMedia (mostly foreign) - Here is a recent story by an Australian television network.
What Can Parents/Teachers, Ashburn Elementary School & the Loudoun County School System Do About It?
Here are some suggestions:
1. Parents & Teachers - Get a water filter for your home that removes Fluoride and send your kids to school with fluoride-free water in a BPA-free bottle as I do with my kids. Buy Fluoride-free toothpaste (it says right there on the label that it is poisonous)
The most obvious solution is to get a water filter to remove the fluoride, chlorine, and any other contaminants from the drinking water and water used for cooking at the school. The last time that I saw the finances of the Ashburn PTO the organization was sitting on over $50,000+. The comment field is open below if anyone would care to name a more important use for that money than ensuring poison-free water for the students and teachers. I have already donated a small filter to the school which remains unused and I stand ready to donate, as I am sure that many other parents would as well, to any effort to buy the school a large capacity filter.
Actual Sign over an Ashburn Elementary School Water FountainAdditionally, the Loudoun County School District employs hundreds of science and chemistry teachers. I know from looking at the logs of this website that employees of the school district are frequent visitors to this site. Surely the school district has the resources to look into this issue and the other information presented on this website. If there is nothing to this then publish a rebuttal. The comment field for this article stands open and waiting below.
Research Resources
The Fluoride Action Network -The leading organization globally covering the topic.
Book: The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson
About the Author
Howard Lichtman is a parent of two students at Ashburn Elementary School, a member of the PTO, and a technology analyst, consultant and publisher. Mr. Lichtman is a frequent commentator on visual collaboration and his writings on and analysis have been featured by US News and World Report, Telephony Magazine, CXO Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Reuters, Pro AV Magazine, Killer App Magazine, ABA Banking Journal, Bank Systems and Technology Magazine and CFO Magazine among others.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Firewater - Full Length Documentary Exposing the Poisoning of the Water Supply Through Fluoridation
Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9
Here is a superb documentary on water fluoridation that was put together by activists in Australia. It is an excellent overview of the toxicology of Fluoride, the harm it does the body, and the corporate "tobacco science" that its supporters rely on to promote a program to dispose of millions of tons of toxic waste from the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industry into the public's drinking water.
I am constantly amazed at how cut and dried this issue is for anyone that spends an hour looking into the subject. The government is dumping poisonous toxic waste that has been linked to lower IQ in 24 studies from around the world into the public's water. It is an absolute, unequivocal FACT. Period.
I have found that most people simply can't get over the cognitive dissonance involved in the realization that the government is poisoning their water (and controlling the MainStreamMedia to ensure that the subject is never covered on their tell-a-vision).
What is even more odd is that anyone that has a scintilla of understanding about world history should know that is exactly the kind of thing that governments do to control their populations. Look at the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, East Germany, China, etc.
Does anyone really believe that a government that is taking 50% of your income for blatantly unconstitutional programs and openly transferring trillions to private banks and CIA front companies like AIG has any interest in a well-educated population capable of critical thinking?
Friday, February 11, 2011
Books Donated to the Ashburn Elementry School Library & The Hand that Rocked Your Intellectual Cradle
I have donated the following titles to the Ashburn Elementary School Library: Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto, The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, and Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto.
I have done so because these books represent some of the most scholarly and well referenced works available documenting the hidden curriculum of government education:
- The deliberate dumbing down of the masses so they can't understand how they are getting raped by the organized crime families that are stealing trillions though central banking/seinorage, military-industrial complex fraud, no-win wars in inhospitable places, etc
- Destruction of independent thought and critical thinking (Ibid)
- The instillation of essentially blind obedience to governmental authority
- The ultimate creation of compliant tax payers and, when needed, military conscripts.
- Social engineering a "Hive Mind" mentality on issues important to the ruling elite
Most teachers, administrators and school psychologists that I have spoken with about this issue don't have a clue that the system they work in has been set up to accomplish these nefarious goals. They are compartmentalized, naive about the "big picture", and many willfully ignorant. I have a good friend who is a psychologist in the Loudoun County School "System" whose kids I care about deeply. I tried to loan her the books above before I donated them to Ashburn Elementary so she could better understand the system she was subjecting her own kids to. Not only did she refuse to even examine the evidence but she threatened to burn the books!
Most teachers and administrators, like my friend the school psychologist, believe because they are in the system... that they understand the system. After all... If there was a hidden curriculum to dumb down the kids then surely they would know about it! Right?
So teachers, administrators, and psychologists will unquestioning go along with "Red, Yellow, Green", public shaming (the "quiet table" at lunch), collective punishment (color cards at lunch), the surveillance cameras, police in the schools, "Classroom Management", the fluoride in the water fountains, raising your hand to go to the bathroom, raising your hand to get a spoon, the almighty Dolphin Dollar, the United Nations flag in the school, sex education, religion and value-free education, death education, the D.A.R.E Program (I turned in my parents and all I got was this lousy t-shirt), the Pavlovian bells, forced vaccinations, tee vees in the classrooms, schools they won't even send their own kids to, the garbage they are serving the kids in the lunchroom, the pledge of allegiance, communal property/communism, military recruiters in the high schools, whole language, outcome-based education, and all the other egregious, counter-productive and/or dehumanizing practices the government school system is engaged in.
Why? Because that's what "The Experts" in Washington DC and the Teacher's Colleges recommend!
NEVER QUESTIONING WHO FUNDED THE EXPERTS/TEACHERS COLLEGES
OR WHO CREATED THE SYSTEM!!!!
Most government school teachers, administrators, and school psychologists don't have a clue as to how and why the Prussian educational model was imported to the United States. I would wager that the majority couldn't even identify Kindergarten as a Prussian word (A garden to grow children)
Most government school teachers, administrators, and school psychologists don't have a clue as to who set up the General Education Board and the teacher's colleges that became the basis for the system they serve today.
Because the administrators, teachers, and school psychologists don't understand how and why the system they serve was constructed, Aristotle would argue they don't really know much at all!
Aristotle's "four causes" stand at the heart of Western rationality and Western science. In order to know a thing, anything at all, Aristotle says that one must be able to understand four causes.
- Material cause: “that from which,
present in it, a thing comes to be … e.g., the bronze and silver, and their genera, are causes of the statue and the bowl.” - Formal cause: “the form, i.e., the pattern … the form is the account of the essence … and the parts of the account.”
- Efficient cause: “the source of the primary principle of change or stability,” e.g., the man who gives advice, the father (of the child). “The producer is a cause of the product, and the initiator of the change is a cause of what is changed.”
- Final cause: “something’s end (telos)—i.e., what it is for—is its cause, as health is
of walking.”
The most important of these to him was the Efficient Cause. For Aristotle, in order to be said to know/understand some “thing” I.E. Government Schools, or The American Psychological Association, or the American Medical Association, etc. one must be able to know the cause of it.
For knowing about something consists of giving an explanation for why that thing is as it is and in order to give such an explanation, one must know the cause of the thing.
So while most school teachers, administrators, and school psychologists think believe they understand the government school system or the American Psychological Association because, after all, they work in the government school system and are a member of the American Psychological Association the reality is they know nothing at all (zero, (0), zilch, nada, nothing) about how these systems came into being, who funded their development and why.
So their understanding of the very systems they serve is actually quite fragile…
Perhaps they should look into who rocked their intellectual cradle…
Meet Daddy:
For the rest of the story there are a number of new scholarly, well-referenced books in the Ashburn Elementary School Library.
If they haven't already been burned...
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Black Friday Demonstrates the Product of Government Schooling
As you watch these scenes of horror from Black Friday realize you are watching the fluoridated, vaccinated, government-schooled masses. As the Central Banksters and their government puppets rape and plunder the country for trillions these are people they don't have to worry about. Ignorant, obese, immoral, dumbed-down tax-slaves that have been poisoned by Fluoride in the water, mercury and aluminum in vaccines, BPA in food plastics and cans, MSG/glutamates in processed foods, and aspartame in everything. They get their reality from the tell-a-vision and glossy magazines and have been taught obedience to the government by government teachers teaching out of government textbooks in government classrooms. As the purchasing power of their dollar evaporates they won't even understand how they have been ripped off... They will riot in the streets begging for help from the same government that dumbed them down and stole their birthright, freedom, and wealth by design.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Psychologists, Death Education, Drugs, and Government Schools
A short video that touches on a number of the programs that are being used to dumb down the population through the government school system. For those that are beginning to understand that their is a hidden curriculum to the government's school system, here are a number of links to verify and research the topics discussed in this short film.
Death Education
Death education at Columbine High - Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
